Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pilchuck!ssc!fyl From: fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: PC database product opinions requested Summary: Progress Message-ID: <1626@ssc.UUCP> Date: 9 Jan 89 20:13:29 GMT References: Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA Lines: 29 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). Let me put in a plug for Progress. It is available for DOS (as well as UNIX and VMS). I have been using it for over 2 years under UNIX and am both impressed with the product and with the support. Progress Software Corporation publishes a list of bugs and which versions offer the fixes on a regular basis (every 3 months I think). When I have called their support number with a question I have either talked immediately to someone who knows something or they called me back within 30 minutes. This has not been my experience with other software companies. Rather than a lengthy sales pitch, lets just say it is easy to use (with one language to describe the menus as well as reports) great diagnostics and great defaults. They used to offer a test drive which was a complete version of the software except it would only support about a 50K database. I actually used this to develop our application before the real version arrived. They are Progress Software Corporation at 617-275-4500. -- Phil Hughes, SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155 (206)FOR-UNIX uw-beaver!tikal!ssc!fyl or uunet!pilchuck!ssc!fyl or attmail!ssc!fyl