Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!micor!latour!ottsun1!pickles
From: pickles@mpr.ca (Clive Pickles)
Subject: What's a good cheap database package for PC-NFS?
Message-ID: <1991Apr8.180657.19325@ottsun1.uucp>
Keywords: PC-NFS,database,compatability
Sender: pickles@ottsun1.uucp (Clive Pickles)
Organization: MPR Teltech Ltd., Ottawa, ON, Canada
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 91 18:06:57 GMT

Hi,

I am looking for a decent database package that will run with PC-NFS.
The criteria are (not in any particular order):

	a) easy for the average user to develop their own simple databases
	b) compatible with PC/NFS 
	c) support file and record locking with concurrent updates
	d) print decent forms and/or reports
	e) reasonably CHEAP (ie. cheaper than Oracle)
	f) preferably SQL 
	g) some sort of security mechanism to prevent unauthorized access

I've read as many glossy brochures as I could get, and none of them say that
they are compatible with PC/NFS.  What do people out there use?  I have
no idea what is good, so I would appreciate any responses to this.  I
have some background in IBM/SQL and VMS DATATRIEVE, and thus would prefer
something similar to this.  If that sort of thing isn't out there, though,
I'm open to others.

Thanks!


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