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From: ssdken@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Ken Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Affordable Database (with C access) Needed !
Keywords: SQL, Relational, 4GL
Message-ID: <3550@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 12 Dec 89 01:11:36 GMT
Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
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My company is developing a new application which we hope to sell to lots
of people on lots of different operating system/hardware combinations.
I have contacted most of the 'big' names in database products ie. Oracle,
Ingres, etc..., and have found them to have 1 thing in common: huge bucks
for run-time licensing and huger bucks for a development system!

Does an 'affordable' database package exist that meets these criteria:

  1. Relational
  2. Portable to at minimum Unix and Vax/VMS (available today)
  3. C access through embedded SQL or other high level access routines.

Our applications will sell for around 10K on a Vax, and 6K on a Sun 4, so 
affordable run times fees might be $0 (yea) to well less than $1000.

Any recommends, or reality checks will be appreciated!


				Ken Nelson
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