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From: cyosta@taux01.UUCP (Yossie Silverman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Database toolkits
Message-ID: <742@taux01.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jun 88 09:03:29 GMT
References: <17474@glacier.STANFORD.EDU> <730033@hpcilzb.HP.COM> <56225@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: taux01!cyosta@nsc.UUCP (Yossie Silverman)
Organization: National Semiconductor (Israel) Ltd.
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In article <56225@sun.uucp> chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>>>4D Quality?  I believe it.  4th Dimension and dBaseMac are slow and
>>>terrible programs.  They are huge, slow, complicated, and buggy.  The
>>>Resource Manager is a bit better.
>
>>Ha! Ha! Ha!  I just love to see pompous jerks (the 4th D people) get flamed!!!!
>Yeah, so do I. But I'll leave the flaming to someone else.

I didn't mean to slander 4D.  I have used it a little and I like it.  I was
trying to state that the DB in question (the one that used the patched 
resource manager) provided database capabilities comparable to 4D.  I have also
played around with dBaseMac and it seems a pretty good DB as well.  If you want
to slader a trashy DB, why not go after the mainframe DBs, like IBMs SQL
(which I have the great misfortune to have to write an application using). 
4D has a much broader set of database access and setup functions not to mention
its superior search capabilities.  I think it is very nice to have a better 
database on a small machine like the mac than on a large machine like an IBM
mainframe.  Just comes to show you.  Regarding that other DB (the unnamed one
that uses the Rscs Manager), I wish I could provide some specifics, it was
nice.
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