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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Question about Ingres & Ultrix 4.0
Message-ID: <10836@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 12 Apr 90 20:43:41 GMT
References: <6389@umd5.umd.edu>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <6389@umd5.umd.edu> jay@umd5.umd.edu (Jay Elvove) writes:
> I keep seeing articles in various trade magazines stating that the next
> release of Ultrix (v 4.0) will come bundled with a "runtime version" of
> RTI's Ingres.  None of these articles has gone into much detail.
> 
> What exactly is meant by a runtime version of a DBMS?  Does anyone know
> just how much of Ingres' DBMS will come with Ultrix (i.e., precompilers,
> an SQL or some other front end, DBA and application tools, networking
> support) if anything?

I would expect it to include whatever components are required from the normal
distribution to run or install applications.  This lets applications vendors
include the stubs in their distributions and pass back license fees to the
DBMS vendor without having to include a complete distribution of the DBMS
stuff.

All in all, it's not a bad idea, but you don't get a useful DBMS outside the
particular applications environment unless you fork out for some kind of
DBMS development distribution...

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