Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-ncis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!labrea!rutgers!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!andante!alice!debra From: debra@alice.UUCP (Paul De Bra) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: PC database product opinions requested Message-ID: <8685@alice.UUCP> Date: 6 Jan 89 16:14:01 GMT References: Reply-To: debra@alice.UUCP () Organization: AT&T, Bell Labs Lines: 25 In article slores%gables.span@umigw.miami.edu (Stanislaw L. Olejniczak) writes: >This is a request for opinions about dBase III + (IV ok) vs. Paradox. I have a >small applications that will grow with time. The users are about as naive as >they come. The appilications will have two sugnificant features: >large files (zilions of records) >four files now, up to eight later, from which information will have to be >extracted. >The whole thing has to run on a PC (large disk). >... If with a PC you mean that it has to run DOS, the large disk may not be very helpful, as each partition can be only about 30 Mbytes or so. So your database (even just one of the eight files) may not fit in one partition. For zilions of records you may need a database that runs on Unix (Xenix), so both dBase III+ and paradox are out. Paul. -- ------------------------------------------------------ |debra@research.att.com | uunet!research!debra | ------------------------------------------------------