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From: catone@dsl.cis.upenn.edu (Tony Catone)
Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Wanted: Opinions on RDBMS's under DOS.
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Date: 13 Oct 89 20:49:25 GMT
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Hi.  I'm about to start work on a large database system under DOS.  A
relational DBMS would best suit our needs, so I'm interested in information
on the usual syspects under DOS: ORACLE, INFORMIX, INGRES.  What are the
hardware requirements?  Do they run acceptably fast on 286/386 machines? 
Or should I stick with a psuedo SQL micro specific database like KMAN/2? 
We need nice screen handling abilities, data interchange facilities since
we're importing a lot of data from a mainframe FOCUS application, and as
full an SQL as we can get, with QBF nice but not required.  We really want
the flexibility of a relational system, so please no pitches for PC/FOCUS. 
Please respond via email or post; we're going to decide this issue within
the next week, so I'll post a summary of responses then.  Thanks much.

- Tony
  catone@dsl.cis.upenn.edu
  catone@wharton.upenn.edu