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From: dhartung@chinet.chi.il.us (Dan Hartung)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Databases to do inventory.
Message-ID: <1991Jun07.064316.8254@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 7 Jun 91 06:43:16 GMT
References: <1991Jun6.191505.23166@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>
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scandal@venus.lerc.nasa.gov writes:
>
>Does anyone have any suggestions on a database that would best
>provide inventory tracking?  
>
>Which is better:  Dbase IV, Clarion, or RBASE 3.1?

All of those packages could do the job.  More efficient would be to
look at existing inventory packages and select the platform it runs on.
A good one is SBT Accounting's inventory package, which runs on either
dBase or FoxPro.  FoxPro is fastest and most flexible.

For developing a custom app in-house, Clarion is good at whipping out
basic applications, but it has limitations that can be quickly reached.

RBase is good if you know SQL and relational theory pretty well, but it
does not have a powerful programming language, and can be pretty slow
on any but the fastest PCs.  (3.1 was a big improvement over 3.0)  It's
more geared toward a highly-knowledgeable end-user than to app development,
unfortunately.

-- 
Daniel A. Hartung           |  "What's the difference anyway, between being
dhartung@chinet.chi.il.us   |  safe and being rad, the joke's on us, we've
Birch Grove Software        |  all been had."  -- John Wesley Harding