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From: richard@calvin.EE.CORNELL.EDU (Richard Brittain)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Advice wanted on VAX dbms programs
Message-ID: <186@calvin.EE.CORNELL.EDU>
Date: 21 Jan 88 05:12:07 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cornell Space Plasma Physics, Ithaca, NY
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Keywords: dBase III, VAX

I am helping advise a medical research institute on building a relational
database to store experimental records and pathology reports.  Their
demands are light as far as volume and complexity go, but the database
must be multiuser access.  I'd love to tell them to buy a few AT's and
a LAN system with a big shared disc to hold the data, and then I'd set
up dBaseIII to do the job,   but that will probably be too much $$$
What they have in way of available resources are a VAX 11/730 - VMS
(but no system manager or programmers).

My question is:  of the rdbms products available for VAXen, what comes
closest to something like dBase,  so I can see if it fills the bill here
(I'm completely new to VAX products)

	Thanks,  Richard Brittain

ARPA richard@calvin.ee.cornell.edu