Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!mahendo!wlbr!europa.asd.contel.com!pluto!sig From: sig@pluto.uucp (Sigurd P. Crossland) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: Vines/Oracle client help needed Message-ID: <1991Apr18.134640.12039@europa.asd.contel.com> Date: 18 Apr 91 13:46:40 GMT References: <22327@gremlin.nrtc.northrop.com> Sender: news@europa.asd.contel.com (News) Reply-To: sig@atlantis.asd.contel.com@pluto.UUCP (Sigurd P. Crossland) Distribution: na Organization: Contel (FSS/GSY/SWE) Lines: 31 Nntp-Posting-Host: pluto.ctc.contel.com In article <22327@gremlin.nrtc.northrop.com> maurit@nrtc.nrtc.northrop.com (Mark Aurit ) writes: >shop, and have PC/FOCUS and the good old COBOL too). Oracle for VINES >is going to be our server for multiple reasons, including management >fiat and the fact that only Oracle runs natively under VINES. You may wish to consider VIA as an alternative to Oracle on VINES. They offer a VINES server version, as well as versions that run on other UNIX platforms. Their address: VIA International 2000 Corporate Ridge Suite 260 McLean, VA 22102 (703) 749-3535 VIA offers a full range of application and development tools, including a VIA server to dBase IV client interface. The VIA architecture itself is somewaht interesting in that it is based on a temporal ordered stack which has a number of inherent advantages over traditional RDBMS implementations. VIA/DRE offers a truly distributed capability, especially useful in the VINES environment because tables may be located at geographicly dispersed nodes in a WAN. (Ask to see the demo of the join between local tables and tables located in Finland using X.25 PDNs.) Also impressive is the capability to insert variable length rows and achieve a significant compression benefit. All in all, it's quite an impressive alternative to Oracle on VINES or UNIX. --- Sigurd P. Crossland Contel Federal Systems Principal Engineer FSS/GSY/SWE WTP-2214N Internet: sig@europa.asd.contel.com 15000 Conference Center Dr.