Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!sharkey!cfctech!teemc!ka3ovk!ki4pv!cdin-1!fred From: fred@cdin-1.UUCP (Fred Rump) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: db_Vista III Anyone? Keywords: db_Vista III, RAIMA, network database model Message-ID: <1208@cdin-1.UUCP> Date: 29 May 90 14:15:29 GMT References: <15198@s.ms.uky.edu> <584@fizban.tessi.UUCP> <1990May25.152612.322@Neon.Stanford.EDU>n Reply-To: fred@cdin-1.UUCP (Fred Rump) Distribution: usa Organization: CompuData, Incorporated, Philadelphia, PA Lines: 40 In article <1990May25.152612.322@Neon.Stanford.EDU> dkeisen@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen) writes: >In article <584@fizban.tessi.UUCP> steve@tessi.UUCP (Steve Willoughby) writes: >>In article <15198@s.ms.uky.edu> ericd@ms.uky.edu (Eric B. Durbin) writes: >>>[...] we're also looking >>>at db_Vista III by RAIMA Corporation. db_Vista is a C database library > >And >my one experience with their tech support was in telling them about a bug in >another of their products (db_QUERY) that could be reproduced in three lines of >code, and getting a phone call from them back two weeks later saying that yes, >it was a bug -- no fix, no workaround, nothing. All of us know that there is no code without bugs. The beauty of this software is that one can obtain the source rather inexpensively and fix, alter or otherwise improve whatever 'bugs' you. It is a great plus for this vendor. I'm not sure if you have their support agreement to have problems resolved in a timely fashion. We don't. We have been waiting for fixes from the rest of the world far too long to continue in that mode. We'd rather fix them ourselves and be done with it. >Yes. This is very useful for development. But it is too complicated >for any of our users to use themselves. If you had the source you could build whatever interface your users can use. It is designed to be a part of an application environment. You'd set everything up for your users to ask simple questions. You also have the choice of using IQ (Intelligent Query) which would interface directly with the db_Vista database dictionery. So far we've not finished testing IQ but I can report back later if anyone is interested. fred -- Fred Rump | UUCP: {uunet dsinc}!cdin-1!fred CompuData, Inc. | "Beware of cats for they are subtle and will .... on 10501 Drummond Rd. | your computer." Philadelphia, Pa. 19154| Internet: fred@COMPU.COM (215-824-3000)