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From: skip@gitpyr.UUCP (Skip Addison)
Newsgroups: net.database
Subject: Re: Networked PC data base?
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Date: Wed, 28-Aug-85 08:13:38 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 28 08:13:38 1985
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In article <121200003@ima.UUCP> johnl@ima.UUCP writes:
....
>We have, in our office, about 40 IBM PCs and the like all hooked together
>with an Ethernet.  They share disk space and printers on two other PCs
>running the 3Com EtherShare stuff.  We have, for the PC world, a lot of
>data -- one of the servers has a 470MB Fujitsu Eagle disk.
>
>We need to have a multi-user data base, for keeping customer records and
>things like that.
>
>Has anybody any experience with something like this?  
> ...
>
>John Levine, Javelin Software, Cambridge MA 617-494-1400
>{ decvax!cca | think | ihnp4 | cbosgd }!ima!johnl, Levine@YALE.ARPA

We've been looking at distributed database packages for IBM PCs using
Microsoft's MS-Net or IBM's PC-Net interface.  So far packages we've
gotten demonstration diskettes for are LAN:datastore from Software
Connections and DATAFLEX from Data Access Corp.  A year or two ago, we
purchased a single-user version of Revelation from COSMOS; it is also
available in a networking version.

All of these packages are designed to provide multi-user access to a 
database with locking at the record level.  Except for Revelation, they
provide a programming interface (C-callable functions) in addition to
an ad hoc query interface.  Revelation provides an enhanced (sic) BASIC
interpreter with their package.

Another package that approaches the problem from a different perspective,
but has now come up with a similar package is the Btrieve/N library from
SoftCraft.  They originally developed B-tree and ISAM routines for
application programmers to use on a stand alone PC.  They made it
distributed and network-oriented.  Then they added a report writer and
ad hoc query language.  All these are available as seperate packages.

I don't have the phone numbers or addresses for these companies handy.
If you'd like more information, send me mail.

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Skip Addison
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