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From: fr@icdi10.UUCP (Fred Rump from home)
Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Free databases
Message-ID: <400@icdi10.UUCP>
Date: 13 Aug 89 18:51:12 GMT
References: <24090@santra.UUCP> <263@phavl.UUCP> <437@alias.UUCP>
Reply-To: fr@icdi10.UUCP (Fred Rump from home)
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In article <437@alias.UUCP> mherman@alias.UUCP (Michael Herman) writes:
>You might try db_VISTA from Raima.  I used it a few years ago.  It's
>good quality.  There are no licenses to worry about.  Source is
>available.  I think pricing is in the $300-500 range.  They have an
>ad in the July issue of BYTE.

Try again. db_Vista is now a very professional product with very professional 
pricing. Advertising costs money and all that.

We bought just the multi-user version therof and you'll need to factor your 
listed prices by at least 10 to be in the right neighborhood. 

Actually with the Query/SQL and restructure part you'd be around $7K
 
Of course, getting the source makes all the difference in the world to justify 
your development costs for a very long time across any range of hardware the 
future may hold.

Fred Rump

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