Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!mks.com!tslwat!louk
From: louk@tslwat.UUCP (Lou Kates)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Relational Database info needed.
Message-ID: <655@tslwat.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jun 91 15:18:54 GMT
References: <5383.28501503@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu} <1991Jun09.222112.10715@chinet.chi.il.us} <1991Jun13.182129.21197@dbase.a-t.com} <13316@sybase.sybase.com}
Reply-To: louk@tslwat.UUCP (Lou Kates)
Organization: Teleride Sage, Ltd., Waterloo
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In article <13316@sybase.sybase.com} tim@ohday.sybase.com (Tim Wood) writes:
}In article <1991Jun13.182129.21197@dbase.a-t.com} awd@dbase.a-t.com (Alastair Dallas) writes:
}}Someone writes}
}}} Ha-ha, not for a year.
}}this sort of requirement: One database across many environments.  ...
}}I think product compatibility across platforms is going to be a
}}significant factor to everyone eventually--apparently Ashton-Tate
}First?  Ha-ha again.  Can you say "Oracle?"  (Try "Sybase," or "Ingres," 
}to name two others?)  All these companies have long since committed to a
}multi-platform marketing strategy.  

I was  under the  impression that  Sybase runs on MS-DOS LANs but
not on single PCs while the  recent PC Magazine's database  issue
indicates that  Ingres' MS-DOS LAN does not  even support locking
on MS-DOS  LANs.  (I have not  used these products so someone can
correct me  if I  am  mistaken.)  If you want it to run on single
PCs, MS-DOS LANs as well as  OS/2, UNIX, VAX/VMS,  etc. then  the
choices are really quite limited and if your requirements include
referential integrity then, to my knowledge,  there  is   no such
portable package.

Lou Kates, Teleride Sage Ltd., louk%tslwat@watmath.waterloo.edu