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From: dennism@menace.rtech.COM (Dennis Moore (x2435, 1080-276) INGRES/teamwork)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Ingres question
Summary: YES !!!
Keywords: ingres database languages
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Date: 2 Aug 89 17:01:20 GMT
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Reply-To: dennism@menace.UUCP (Dennis Moore (x2435, 1080-276) INGRES/teamwork)
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Jack --

INGRES is a wonderful product.  You may think, "of course he says so, he
works there."  My response is "that's why I *CAME* here."

INGRES can be accessed from more languages than any other database I know,
including C, COBOL, Fortran, Pascal, BASIC, ADA, PL/1, and our 4GL (OSL).
By access, I mean embedded SQL or QUEL statements in the host language.
INGRES can also run straight SQL scripts.

In addition, several other companies provide tools to access INGRES data
using other 4GLs, and I believe Progress is one of them, although you'll
never go back to another 4GL after OSL.

As far as RDA goes, I don't think that this standard has been approved at
any meaningful implementation level yet.  RTI is actively, with the support
of many vendors, pursuing many standardization efforts, including RDA and
GCA, IRDS (Information Resource Dictionary System -- data dictionary
standard), OPEN SQL, OSF, and others.  GCA is an RDA implementation, and
GCA exists now.  As part of the Open Desktop product announcement (ODT is
a product available from SCO integrating Motif, networking, UNIX/386, and
an embedded database engine -- INGRES), several database vendors announced
that they would support ODT, which means that they will communicate with
the DBMS (INGRES) using GCA.

I can get more detailed information if you like.  This is all from memory,
and is not my specialty.

-- Dennis Moore, my own opinions etc.