[comp.databases] User Comments About INFORMIX, dBC, Clipper

cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) (04/07/88)

We are developing a user console type of product for our digital loop 
carrier.  As part of that activity, we have a need to maintain a data
base of information, which can be used to produce a variety of reports,
some of them at the whim of the user.  We are considering a couple of
different approaches: 1) produce dBASE III format files using dBC from
Lattice, use Clipper to produce standard report executables, and thus 
allow the user to produce his own specialized reports with dBASE III, 
or; 2) using Informix ESQL/C to produce the data base, and the 
associated Informix product for specialized reports.  I would be
curious to hear from anyone who has used any of these products about
reliability, buginess, quality of technical support.

Clayton E. Cramer
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