tbetz@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Betz) (03/31/88)
Organization: Zen Community of New York I want to thank all who responded to <3523@dasys1.UUCP> regarding RDBMS Accounting. Suggestions have been most informative and helpful to me this week. After looking around a bit, the PROGRESS RDBMS/4GL package has caught my interest very strongly. I have yet to speak to a developer who has used it who has a bad word to say about it... and there are a lot of accounting packages out there with the capabilities I need already written for it. It will run on almost any hardware or O/S and share files transparently across a network of dissimilar machines, and there are very good spreadsheet and graphics programs out there that interface quite neatly with it. In other words, it seems too damn good to be true. What do you all here know about it, and the applications that run on it? Waiting for my trial disk... Tom Betz, ZCNY -- Tom Betz {allegra,philabs,cmcl2}!phri\ Big Electric Cat Public Unix {bellcore,cmcl2}!cucard!dasys1!tbetz New York, NY, USA {sun}!hoptoad/
fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes) (04/04/88)
In article <3640@dasys1.UUCP>, tbetz@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Betz) writes: > Organization: Zen Community of New York > After looking around a bit, the PROGRESS RDBMS/4GL package has > caught my interest very strongly. I have yet to speak to a developer > who has used it who has a bad word to say about it... and there are a > lot of accounting packages out there with the capabilities I need > already written for it. We have been using Progress for about 2 years. We are primarily a mail order business (we sell UNIX pocket references and related stuff) and maintain a database of customers and non-customers. We have bookstore accounts which need followups and also sell software that needs followup calls. We use progress to handle that database. All the applications were written from scratch, many by me. I am really pleased with both the ease of getting the job done and the speed of the system. I started writing stuff when we had the test drive (then $50). As consultants, we have recommended Progress to others. Everyone I know who has used it is very satisfied. Also, their support is amazing. When you call with a problem, if they are busy they say they will call you back. And, they do. Maybe 30 minutes later. They also publish a bug list. -- Phil uunet!pilchuck!ssc!fyl
tbetz@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Betz) (04/06/88)
Organization: Zen Community of New York Still shopping around for a new *nix RDBMS-based accounting and development system, I have come across some possible competition to Progress, and would like further opinions from the vast mind of Newsnet. Resolve Logic Systems of Toronto sells a package called the Resolve Integrated Productivity Set, which includes an RDBMS with 4GL, applications developer, communications package, SQL interface, word processing and spreadsheet, as well as a full line of accounting packages. I didn't think I'd find another product with more features than Progress, but it seems to be just that, and at a competitive price. Is there anyone out there using this system or any part of it who can tell me something of their experiences with it? Also, the OPUS Series 100 Personal Mainframe running Sys V 3.0 has been recommended to me as a better alternative to an 80386 running Xenix. It seems to be price competitive as well, and I'm told that it would have comparable performance. Any recommendations or caveats? A thousand thanks. -- Tom Betz {allegra,philabs,cmcl2}!phri\ Big Electric Cat Public Unix {bellcore,cmcl2}!cucard!dasys1!tbetz New York, NY, USA {sun}!hoptoad/