murphy@excalibur.cs.unc.edu (Ransom Murphy) (10/16/90)
This is the first time posting to this group and I have actually not had a chance to read too much so forgive me if this has been recently covered but I need some advice. I am working on a project to combine serveral large widely used databases into a centralized database that will be accessable to a large number of people. Idealy I would like to have my database set up on a Unix system. We use Ultrix, Sun OS, and BSD Unix, not VMS. I want to keep the database on the unix system and have a Macintosh front end with possibly a hypercard interface or something similar to hypercard. I need some product recommendations and some advice from anyone experienced with this type of thing. Thanks a lot, Ransom Ransom Murphy Internet: murphy@cs.unc.edu Department of Computer Science PH# 919-962-1708 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599
bmug@garnet.berkeley.edu (BMUG) (10/17/90)
In article <16827@thorin.cs.unc.edu> murphy@excalibur.cs.unc.edu (Ransom Murphy) writes: > >I am working on a project to combine serveral large widely used >databases into a centralized database that will be accessable to >a large number of people. Idealy I would like to have my >database set up on a Unix system. We use Ultrix, Sun OS, and >BSD Unix, not VMS. I want to keep the database on the unix system >and have a Macintosh front end with possibly a hypercard interface >or something similar to hypercard. I need some product >recommendations and some advice from anyone experienced with this >type of thing. > Well, with Macintosh front ends you have a few choices: Sybase can be used with either a HyperCard or 4th Dimension front end. The latter is probably better in terms of optimization. Oracle can be used with HyperCard, and I believe there's also been work done with 4th Dimension as a front end. TechGnosis markets interfaces (SequeLink) which will provide connectivity between various front ends and various SQL servers. Apple's DAL (nee CL/1) promises to provide connectivity between any Macintosh application which includes it and any server which supports it (I'm not sure what the current list includes). John Heckendorn /\ BMUG ARPA: bmug@garnet.berkeley.EDU A__A 1442A Walnut St., #62 BITNET: bmug@ucbgarne |()| Berkeley, CA 94709 Phone: (415) 549-2684 | |
markj@informix.com (Mark Jeske(Chicago Consultan)t) (10/17/90)
In article <1990Oct16.214306.9900@agate.berkeley.edu> bmug@garnet.berkeley.edu (BMUG) writes: >In article <16827@thorin.cs.unc.edu> murphy@excalibur.cs.unc.edu (Ransom Murphy) writes: >> >>I am working on a project to combine serveral large widely used >>databases into a centralized database that will be accessable to >>a large number of people. Idealy I would like to have my >>database set up on a Unix system. We use Ultrix, Sun OS, and >>BSD Unix, not VMS. I want to keep the database on the unix system >>and have a Macintosh front end with possibly a hypercard interface >>or something similar to hypercard. I need some product >>recommendations and some advice from anyone experienced with this >>type of thing. >> > >Well, with Macintosh front ends you have a few choices: > You might also want to look into our Wingz spreadsheet that can use Wingz Datalink to access information in a database on a unix host. Wingz has a built in hyperscript programming language that is very powerfull. Mark Jeske (Informix consulting) markj@infmx.com