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From: fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: rdbms
Message-ID: <874@ssc.UUCP>
Date: 12 Mar 91 17:56:55 GMT
References: <3817@wb3ffv.ampr.org> <19089@rpp386.cactus.org>
Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA
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In article <19089@rpp386.cactus.org>, jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F Haugh II) writes:
> In article <3817@wb3ffv.ampr.org> wmark@wb3ffv.ampr.org (Mark Winsor) writes:
> >I'm in need of a dbms system that comes with source. It can be extremely 
> >simple, as long as it is not extremely expensive. Anybody have any suggestions?
> 
> I don't know how much of a system you are looking for, but Faircom sells
> a C-ISAM system which comes with sources.  I believe the price is < $1,000.
> You would still have to write the code to handle your database relations,
...

Another alternative if you are happy with ISAM and b-tree routines is
SoftFocus.  They handle variable length records, multi-user, ...
Nice people.  Their number is 416-825-0903.

The whole package is something like $200 with no royalty charges.

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