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From: peterh@gollum.uio.no (Peter Hausken)
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Subject: Re: What's a good cheap database package for PC-NFS?
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Date: 11 Apr 91 13:00:39 GMT
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>pickles@mpr.ca (Clive Pickles) Writes:
>
>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!
>
>
>-- 
>===================================================================
>= Clive Pickles - Systems Administrator MPR Teltech Ltd. (Ottawa) =
>= Phone: (613) 787-4159 ------------------ E-mail: pickles@mpr.ca =
>===================================================================
>


I assume you're looking for a filebased database. A DOS program that
access the database files in the same maner as on a local harddisk.

My prefered solution would be a SQL-client using PC-NFS' TCP/IP and
Link-level drivers to access a SQL-server. A solution like that
would make you undependent of NFS and rather use RPC to access the
database on a UNIX-server (or other). I belive I have heard about
various vendors working PC-NFS support for the client-server model
in their databases, but everytime I ask the sellers they can hardly
understand the model. They insist that their product supports TCP/IP
and therefor should support everything. Often that turns out to be
their own implementation of TCP/IP for some obscure Ethernet card
uncompatible with everything else.

If someone have a list of databases using PC-NFS after the client-
server model I would be happy to know which vendors supporting it.
In fact I hope Sun will do a job having vendors to support PC-NFS.
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