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From: elgie@canisius.UUCP (Bill Elgie)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Databases - performance vs. price
Keywords: performance price
Message-ID: <2408@canisius.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jul 89 03:39:27 GMT
References: <1554@unccvax.UUCP> <1735@ucqais.uc.edu> <188@labii.UUCP>
Organization: Canisius College, Buffalo N.Y. 14208
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In article <188@labii.UUCP>, shevett@labii.UUCP (Dave Shevett) writes:
> ... I'm constantly snickering
> to myself listening to people looking for an inexpensive way of getting a
> GOOD, POWERFUL database to run in a multi-user environment.
> Simple.  Get Foxbase.  
> ...  A rundown - I'm running a moderate Foxbase
> program (about 3000 lines) on a 16mghz 386 system with a 40 meg drive.  I
> have 4-6 people accessing it regularly, and the system HUMS along.  No
> expensive equipment, no absurdly complicated DBMS, no horrendous pricetag.
> 
> Probably the greatest boon has been the ability to just copy the files from
> my Unix system to a DOS disk, and run the application IMMEDIATELY on my PC
> at home...
> 
  If only all our applications were this simple ......

    greg pavlov (under borrowed account), fstrf, amherst, ny