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From: bsa@telotech.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Databases - performance vs. price
Keywords: performance price
Message-ID: <1989Jul29.210437.4659@telotech.uucp>
Date: 29 Jul 89 21:04:37 GMT
References: <1554@unccvax.UUCP> <1735@ucqais.uc.edu> <188@labii.UUCP> <2408@canisius.UUCP>
Sender: bsa@telotech.uucp (Brandon S. Allbery)
Reply-To: bsa@telotech.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
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	      telotech, inc. - Beachwood, OH
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In-reply-to: elgie@canisius.UUCP (Bill Elgie)

In article <2408@canisius.UUCP>, elgie@canisius (Bill Elgie) writes:
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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.  
| 
|   If only all our applications were this simple ......
+---------------

If Dave can show me how to get the *full* functionality of Informix's Perform,
Oracle's SQL*Forms, or Unify's Accell (or even ENTER), I'll consider it.
--No?  I thought not.  (Foxbase and other dBase'd DBMSes can't do arbitrary
queries on any combination of fields from a screen form; I can take none of
them seriously until this capability is added.)

++Brandon
-- 
  Brandon S. Allbery @ telotech, inc.   (I do not speak for telotech.  Ever.)
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