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Subject: Re: Information Center Query
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Date: Thu, 4-Apr-85 05:44:49 EST
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From: dual!lll-crg!osiris!kc@maryland.ARPA (Kathleen Callaway)



I can respond to only part of your query.  Since your friend is aiming at a
VAX and has considered Oracle, I would recommend RTI Ingres from Relational
Technologies, Inc.  RTI Ingres runs on a VAX under both VMS and BSD 4.2.
It has screen-oriented user interface with a graphics package.  (I have not
used the graphics package.)  It is a truly relational database, making it
easy to redesign queries on an ad hoc basis.  It has a decent report writing
facility that non-programmers can master.  Its query language QUEL can 
be embedded in a number of "high level" languages available on a VAX
(C, Fortran, Pascal, BASIC) so programmers can build applications running
on the database.
This recommendation comes from my being a project leader for an application
written in C with embedded QUEL on a VAX 11/750 VMS 3.5 for the past year.
We are now up to Ingres 3.0 and enjoying good support on the whole from RTI.
Kathleen Callaway