munish@ms.uky.edu (Munish Mehra) (10/02/89)
I would like to begin a discussion on Comparing Strengths and Weaknesses of Database Packages on the PC. I used a set of C functions called "Emerald Bay" and found it very buggy (This was originally designed by Wayne Ratliff, the creator of Dbase and given to a Company called Migent to Market), they really screwed up, so Ratliff has taken back the product and it was remarketted a couple of months ago with all bug fixes, I have not had time to re-evaluate it in detail, but it really looked very promising. It had elaborate security features and seemed to have been designed very well. It also has a screen painting utility, to interactively create the menu's and data entry screens. I have being using a product called "CLARION" for the last eight months to build a large dataentry package, I find both strengths and weaknesses in it, If anybody is interested in continuing this discussion and also sharing info on other database packages I will be more than glad to continue.