roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) (07/15/87)
Are there any major differences between the Ingres that comes for
free on the 4.3BSD tape and that which you can buy from Sun for a
significant amount of money? Would it be a big job to get the 4.3 code
running on a Sun-3?
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Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016pavlov@hscfvax.UUCP (840033@G.Pavlov) (07/16/87)
In article <2795@phri.UUCP>, roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes: > > Are there any major differences between the Ingres that comes for > free on the 4.3BSD tape and that which you can buy from Sun for a > significant amount of money? Would it be a big job to get the 4.3 code > running on a Sun-3? > -- The version from Sun is actually a port of Relational Technology's Ingres. Differences include a number of development tools, choices of storage (and secondary key) structures, and speed. greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst, ny
ssm@wdl1.UUCP (Samuel S. Michlin) (07/17/87)
Yes. There are big differences between Sun Ingres and BSD 4.3 Ingres. Sun is re-distributing RTI's (Relational Technology Inc) Ingres release 5.0 that runs on the Sun, Vax (4.3 & VMS), IBM PC, and other machines. This software is a full commercial product with many enhancements over the original BSD Ingres, including: QBF (Query By Forms), ABF (Application By Forms), RBF (Report By Forms), Report Writer, GBF (Graph By Forms), VIFRED (Visual Forms Editor), VIGRAPH (Visual Graphics editor), SQL support (in addition to QUEL), and RTINGRES (a forms based interface to all/most of the Ingres utilities). It includes many other features and enhancements such as a front-end / back-end server approach that allows databases to be distributed among various heterogeneous machines. It is a fully supported and growing commercial product vs. an unsupported academic research tool. You may not get ALL of what you pay for (at least not at the same time), but you will get MUCH more by paying for it NOW than by paying for it LATER through working harder and longer with a limited, outmoded, and unsupported "free" product. Sam Michlin Ford Aerospace & Communications Corp. ...sun!wdl1!ssm or ssm@ford-wdl1.arpa