hajadi@goofy.csd.sgi.com (Ivan Hajadi) (03/30/91)
My friend's company plans to move from DOS to unix system. The initial
unix system will be 386 running SCO or Interactive unix, later on they
will buy sparc based unix systems.
The current applications mostly written in dBase III+. They know
dBase IV unix version, but they would like to know whether other dBase
tools such as Clipper also available on unix platforms.
At this point, they don't think moving to oracle or sybase is possible,
but they would like to know other's experience when moving from dos to
unix database.
Thanks.
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Ivan M. Hajadi, GUI junky
hajadi@csd.sgi.comjmp@sfs.uucp (John Pearce) (04/01/91)
In article <1991Mar29.202515.26357@odin.corp.sgi.com> hajadi@goofy.csd.sgi.com (Ivan Hajadi) writes: > >but they would like to know other's experience when moving from dos to >unix database. We moved a dBase III+ accounting system to SCO Foxbase+ and were very pleased with the results. You do have to spend considerable time making changes in printer destinations and otherwise allowing for the differences between DOS and Xenix, but it was _much_ easier than getting an entirely new accounting system. -- ============================================================================ John M. Pearce +++ Suncoast Fire and Safety Equipment, Inc. +++ Sarasota, FL jmp@sfs (813) 955-2202 Fax (813) 954-4213 uunet!sfs!jmp ============================================================================
pew@cs.brown.edu (Peter E. Wagner) (04/01/91)
In article <1991Mar29.202515.26357@odin.corp.sgi.com>, hajadi@goofy.csd.sgi.com (Ivan Hajadi) writes: |> |> My friend's company plans to move from DOS to unix system. The initial |> unix system will be 386 running SCO or Interactive unix, later on they |> will buy sparc based unix systems. |> |> The current applications mostly written in dBase III+. They know |> dBase IV unix version, but they would like to know whether other dBase |> tools such as Clipper also available on unix platforms. |> |> At this point, they don't think moving to oracle or sybase is possible, |> but they would like to know other's experience when moving from dos to |> unix database. |> SCO has Foxbase for Unix. I believe they are working on FoxPro for Unix. Foxbase is 100% compatible with dBase III+. I'm sure you would be very happy with this switch. Peter -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Peter E. Wagner pew@cs.brown.edu Department Computer Science Brown University ----------------------------------------------------------------