maurit@nrtc.nrtc.northrop.com (Mark Aurit <maurit>) (04/17/91)
We're a Banyan Vines shop and have a requirement to put a DBMS on the network and find some good front end tools (BTW, we're also a CLIPPER shop, and have PC/FOCUS and the good old COBOL too). Oracle for VINES is going to be our server for multiple reasons, including management fiat and the fact that only Oracle runs natively under VINES. Is anyone writing apps for Oracle under VINES? Im trying to get a handle on my alternatives. There is SQLWindows, but its not clear yet if I can bring that in. There are the Oracle tools, and Ive heard differing opinions about whether we can write industrial strength apps using them. Id like to leverage our use of dBASE (and its derivatives). Would appreciate any help. Mark Aurit Internet: maurit@nrtc.northrop.com CompuServer: 71327,2534 Phone: (213) 331-4069
sig@pluto.uucp (Sigurd P. Crossland) (04/18/91)
In article <22327@gremlin.nrtc.northrop.com> maurit@nrtc.nrtc.northrop.com (Mark Aurit <maurit>) writes: >shop, and have PC/FOCUS and the good old COBOL too). Oracle for VINES >is going to be our server for multiple reasons, including management >fiat and the fact that only Oracle runs natively under VINES. You may wish to consider VIA as an alternative to Oracle on VINES. They offer a VINES server version, as well as versions that run on other UNIX platforms. Their address: VIA International 2000 Corporate Ridge Suite 260 McLean, VA 22102 (703) 749-3535 VIA offers a full range of application and development tools, including a VIA server to dBase IV client interface. The VIA architecture itself is somewaht interesting in that it is based on a temporal ordered stack which has a number of inherent advantages over traditional RDBMS implementations. VIA/DRE offers a truly distributed capability, especially useful in the VINES environment because tables may be located at geographicly dispersed nodes in a WAN. (Ask to see the demo of the join between local tables and tables located in Finland using X.25 PDNs.) Also impressive is the capability to insert variable length rows and achieve a significant compression benefit. All in all, it's quite an impressive alternative to Oracle on VINES or UNIX. --- Sigurd P. Crossland Contel Federal Systems Principal Engineer FSS/GSY/SWE WTP-2214N Internet: sig@europa.asd.contel.com 15000 Conference Center Dr.