pd1h+@andrew.cmu.edu (Philip H. Dye) (02/02/88)
Does anyone know anything about db_Vista. It is supposed to run on MS-DOS, MAC, Unix or XENIX, and VMS systems. This sounds great but I've never heard about it except from the company. Does anyone have any input? Philip Dye pd1h+@andrew.cmu.edu
michael@orcisi.UUCP (Michael Herman) (02/03/88)
> Does anyone know anything about db_Vista. It is supposed to run on MS-DOS, > MAC, Unix or XENIX, and VMS systems. This sounds great but I've never heard > about it except from the company. Does anyone have any input? We've used it but wouldn't characterize ourselves as database "experts" in terms of comparing it with other db products. It's easy to use and efficient. Source code is available and inexpensive. We got it a couple years ago when we needed a db with a C API that would work under MS Windows. The source code is very portable. It has served us well.
sms@esquire.UUCP (Steve Saper) (02/04/88)
>Does anyone know anything about db_Vista. It is supposed to run on MS-DOS, >MAC, Unix or XENIX, and VMS systems. This sounds great but I've never heard >about it except from the company. Does anyone have any input? > Both db_vista and db_query from Raima Corp. are good solutions for small to moderate database applications. We have chosen the software for our use after comparing it to other products on the market, such as C-Tree. They have the cleanest and most functional approach of the packages we have surveryed. Additionally, the performance appears to be very good. Since we are still in the infancy stage of our own development, I cannot yet report hard and fast performance figures. Hpoe this helps.
fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes) (02/04/88)
I played with db_vista about 2 years ago. It does what they say but we decided that it would be too much work to implement what we wanted. At the time there was no query language but that wasn't the real problem. It would have taken up a lot of time to set up screens. We have (and even sell) a product called Zebu which creates screens and will access a file with two record types and one key. The application I wanted to write was a rather fancy system to handle inquiries, letter writing, followups, mailing, ... All the stuff you would expect for a mail order business. After playing with db_Vista for a while, I got a test version of Progress. It also runs under DOS, UNIX and VMS. The ease of creating screens and reports in Progress convinced me to go with it. If I was making an imbedded application that I expected to sell in volume, the decision would have been different but for a one-time system Progress was worth it. By the way, Raima has a 30 day evaluation agreement so you can get db_Vista, try it and send it back if you don't like it. -- Phil uunet!pilchuck!ssc!fyl
bill@wsccs.UUCP (Bill Housley) (02/11/88)
In article <EW1Gssy00UjJ0Y40UE@andrew.cmu.edu>, pd1h+@andrew.cmu.edu (Philip H. Dye) writes: > > Does anyone know anything about db_Vista. It is supposed to run on MS-DOS, > MAC, Unix or XENIX, and VMS systems. This sounds great but I've never heard > about it except from the company. Does anyone have any input? I read the following out of a periodical. That it works only with C ( and other Microsoft languages) It has provisions available for multiuser and networking (DOS 3.1 compatable). (see "Computer Language MAY, 1987 pg. 72,73 for more). -- ____________________________________________________________________________ UUCP !ihup!utah-cs!utah-gr!uplherc!sp7040!obie!wsccs!bill {WSC Utah} - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -