Xref: utzoo comp.unix.microport:3493 comp.databases:2853 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zephyr!tektronix!nosun!neighorn From: neighorn@nosun.UUCP ( SE Sun/PDX) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport,comp.databases Subject: Re: Relational Databases for Microport Unix V/386 3.0e Keywords: relational database microport Message-ID: <313@nosun.UUCP> Date: 28 Jun 89 22:37:59 GMT References: <763@radig.UUCP> Reply-To: neighorn@nosun.UUCP (Steven C. Neighorn - SE Sun/PDX) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Portland, Or. Lines: 55 In article <763@radig.UUCP> peter@radig.UUCP (Peter Radig) writes: >I'm searching for a relational database which runs under uports >Unix V/386 3.0. (Not necessarily a PD program but also any commercial >product) >If you know about one, please write name, features, availability, prize, >etc. my mail bounced the first time, so here's a followup: I did a project on uport Unix using Unify's Unify/Accell package. The DB and application system lists (at the time, about 18 months ago) for $4500. This was a project for a medical school, so they received a 50% discount. At that time (and this has certainly changed) Unify was the only database that worked on V/386. No Informix, No Oracle, No Ingres, and only run-time DataFlex (you could develop on the 286, but that was unacceptable). I was put in the unenviable position of using the first V/386 port of Accell, and it showed. I dealt with numerous unexplainable, untraceable, fixed-by- phase-of-moon core dumps, statements that simply did not work, printer support problems, and numerous other gotchas. The school did not have the funds at that time for the $1500 (no discount) support/upgrade offer, so they are still running the first release on the 80386 (also called Accell 4.0) In the end, and with the help of some very nice local support people, I got the project done. Accell has a pretty nice curses-based applications development and run-time environment, complete with a paint program, windows, auto-menus, and so on. I would recommend Unify/Accell for Microport *IF AND ONLY IF* they got lots of those nasty bugs fixed. If you are going to generate your application in C and use their applications library, you will get around many of the problems in the applications generator itself. Their C-attachments are plentiful and in my experience seem to work pretty well. I lost count of how many times the apps generator simply locked up, and I had to go to a virtual console and kill several processes. Unify's (at least the group in Lake Oswego, Oregon) people were as helpful as they can be (especially Mike Barton). The manuals contain plenty of information (although it is all over the place). Their demo application is not trivial, but the more your application is like theirs the more you will learn from it (kinda like math books, if you know what I mean :-)). Good luck in your quest... -- Steven C. Neighorn !tektronix!{psu-cs,nosun,ogccse}!qiclab!neighorn Sun Microsystems, Inc. "Where we DESIGN the Star Fighters that defend the 9900 SW Greenburg Road #240 frontier against Xur and the Ko-dan Armada" Portland, Oregon 97223 work: (503) 684-9001 / home: (503) 641-3469