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From: aland@infmx.UUCP (Dr. Scump)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Sun 4 DBMS Query
Summary: standard INFORMIX-SQL product line available
Keywords: help!
Message-ID: <544@infmx.UUCP>
Date: 20 Oct 88 03:24:44 GMT
References: <46@necbsd.NEC.COM>
Organization: Informix Software Inc., Menlo Park, CA.
Lines: 29

In article <46@necbsd.NEC.COM>, baker@necbsd.NEC.COM (L. BAKER) writes:
| 
| We are currently evaluating various DBMS products for use on a SUN 4/280
| datacenter.  We'd tentatively decided on Oracle, but just found out
| that Oracle doesn't plan to have their product ported to the Sun 4
| until March!

I thought I read somewhere that they planned to complete their ports
to all platforms within 90 days of their first (VMS?) port of each
given new release ??

| We can't wait that long.
| If anyone `out there' has any information on DBMS products that are
| ALIVE AND WELL UNDER THE SUN 4 ARCHITECTURE, please forward that
| information to me.  We are interested in Oracle-like or Informix-like
| application development environments, though at this point *any*
| information will be useful.
| 
| Thank you!
| LEB

The INFORMIX-SQL product line (INFORMIX-SQL, INFORMIX-4GL, C-ISAM,
INFORMIX-ESQL/C, etc.) is available on the Sun 4/200 series running
SUN O/S 4.0.  Ask for port #4223 (tape) or #4224 (cartridge).

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