ssdken@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Ken Nelson) (12/12/89)
My company is developing a new application which we hope to sell to lots of people on lots of different operating system/hardware combinations. I have contacted most of the 'big' names in database products ie. Oracle, Ingres, etc..., and have found them to have 1 thing in common: huge bucks for run-time licensing and huger bucks for a development system! Does an 'affordable' database package exist that meets these criteria: 1. Relational 2. Portable to at minimum Unix and Vax/VMS (available today) 3. C access through embedded SQL or other high level access routines. Our applications will sell for around 10K on a Vax, and 6K on a Sun 4, so affordable run times fees might be $0 (yea) to well less than $1000. Any recommends, or reality checks will be appreciated! Ken Nelson Project Manager Software Systems Design 3267 Padua Avenue Claremont, CA 91711 (714) 624-3402
deac@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Deac Lancaster) (12/14/89)
In article <3550@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> ssdken@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Ken Nelson) writes: > >Does an 'affordable' database package exist that meets these criteria: > > 1. Relational > 2. Portable to at minimum Unix and Vax/VMS (available today) > 3. C access through embedded SQL or other high level access routines. > I'm aware of a product called DATAFLEX that costs under $1000. It has C access via embedded DML that is not SQL. It runs on micros, but I believe it is portable to UNIX and Vax/VMS. Tel (913) 268-5013. A. Does anyone out there know for sure about portability? B. Does anyone have experience pro or con wrt Dataflex? Ciao, Deac Lancaster