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From: kbc@mdbs.UUCP (Kevin Castleberry)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Advice wanted on VAX dbms programs
Message-ID: <815@mdbs.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jan 88 05:29:13 GMT
References: <186@calvin.EE.CORNELL.EDU>
Reply-To: kbc@mdbs.UUCP (Kevin Castleberry)
Distribution: comp
Organization: Micro Database Systems, Inc., Lafayette IN
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Keywords: dBase III, VAX

In article <186@calvin.EE.CORNELL.EDU> richard@calvin.EE.CORNELL.EDU (Richard Brittain) writes:
>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


KMAN fits these requirements and then some.
It currently runs on msdos, unix, vms and os/2.
 
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