[comp.databases] RE^2 Databases: performance vs price

cs00chs@unccvax.UUCP (charles spell) (07/28/89)

In article <188@labii.UUCP>, shevett@labii.UUCP (Dave Shevett) writes:
>> ... I'm constantly snickering
>> to myself listening to people looking for an inexpensive way of getting a
>> GOOD, POWERFUL database to run in a multi-user environment.
>> Simple.  Get Foxbase.  
>> ...  A rundown - I'm running a moderate Foxbase
>> program (about 3000 lines) on a 16mghz 386 system with a 40 meg drive.  I
>> have 4-6 people accessing it regularly, and the system HUMS along.  No
>> expensive equipment, no absurdly complicated DBMS, no horrendous pricetag.
>> 
>  If only all our applications were this simple ......
>    greg pavlov (under borrowed account), fstrf, amherst, ny

Yeah, I agree. I was thinking big-time. "WE" have about 200 different sites 
and 3 different projects (avg of 100,000 lines each)-all running on 64-user,
500-2000 MEGbyte "UNIX" superminis. My original post was merely looking to
get away from ANY type of site licensing, royalties, object code, etc. We
want FREE SOURCE. Well, I see a solution in just breakin out the books an doin
it ourselves. 

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