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Subject: Re: Need recommendation for relational databases
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Date: 16 Oct 90 21:43:06 GMT
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In article <16827@thorin.cs.unc.edu> murphy@excalibur.cs.unc.edu (Ransom Murphy) writes:
>
>I am working on a project to combine serveral large widely used
>databases into a centralized database that will be accessable to
>a large number of people.  Idealy I would like to have my
>database set up on a Unix system.  We use Ultrix, Sun OS, and 
>BSD Unix, not VMS.  I want to keep the database on the unix system 
>and have a Macintosh front end with possibly a hypercard interface
>or something similar to hypercard.  I need some product 
>recommendations and some advice from anyone experienced with this
>type of thing.
>

Well, with Macintosh front ends you have a few choices:

Sybase can be used with either a HyperCard or 4th Dimension front end.
The latter is probably better in terms of optimization.

Oracle can be used with HyperCard, and I believe there's also been
work done with 4th Dimension as a front end.

TechGnosis markets interfaces (SequeLink) which will provide connectivity
between various front ends and various SQL servers.

Apple's DAL (nee CL/1) promises to provide connectivity between any 
Macintosh application which includes it and any server which supports
it (I'm not sure what the current list includes).

John Heckendorn
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