richard@calvin.EE.CORNELL.EDU (Richard Brittain) (01/21/88)
I am helping advise a medical research institute on building a relational database to store experimental records and pathology reports. Their demands are light as far as volume and complexity go, but the database must be multiuser access. I'd love to tell them to buy a few AT's and a LAN system with a big shared disc to hold the data, and then I'd set up dBaseIII to do the job, but that will probably be too much $$$ What they have in way of available resources are a VAX 11/730 - VMS (but no system manager or programmers). My question is: of the rdbms products available for VAXen, what comes closest to something like dBase, so I can see if it fills the bill here (I'm completely new to VAX products) Thanks, Richard Brittain ARPA richard@calvin.ee.cornell.edu
kbc@mdbs.UUCP (Kevin Castleberry) (01/31/88)
In article <186@calvin.EE.CORNELL.EDU> richard@calvin.EE.CORNELL.EDU (Richard Brittain) writes: >I am helping advise a medical research institute on building a relational >database to store experimental records and pathology reports. Their >demands are light as far as volume and complexity go, but the database >must be multiuser access. I'd love to tell them to buy a few AT's and >a LAN system with a big shared disc to hold the data, and then I'd set >up dBaseIII to do the job, but that will probably be too much $$$ >What they have in way of available resources are a VAX 11/730 - VMS >(but no system manager or programmers). > >My question is: of the rdbms products available for VAXen, what comes >closest to something like dBase, so I can see if it fills the bill here >(I'm completely new to VAX products) > > Thanks, Richard Brittain > >ARPA richard@calvin.ee.cornell.edu KMAN fits these requirements and then some. It currently runs on msdos, unix, vms and os/2. Micro Data Base Systems Inc. P.O. Box 248 Lafayette, IN 47902 (317) 463-2581