Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!enea!dkuug!ncrsecp!jr From: jr@ncrsecp.Copenhagen.NCR.dk (Jakob Riis) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: PC database product opinions requested Message-ID: <1753@ncrsecp.Copenhagen.NCR.dk> Date: 20 Jan 89 20:25:48 GMT References: <1626@ssc.UUCP> Reply-To: Jakob.Riis@ncrsecp.Copenhagen.NCR.dk Organization: NCR Systems Engineering Copenhagen Lines: 44 In article <1626@ssc.UUCP> fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes) writes: >In article , slores%gables.span@umigw.miami.edu (Stanislaw L. Olejniczak) writes: >> 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. I too have been happy with Progress. It is not SQL, and thanks for that! If, though, you should want to fire off a couple of these ugly, nested bastards, Progress will swallow it and you can even modify the statements with screen colors etc. When you have naive users, I think you should look at a product called FastTrack, which is an add-on to Progress, which allows you to build menus and screens fast. Menus in std-Progress is a pain in the **, the screens are easy as long as you accept the proposed from Progress. If you want to build advanced, customized (e.g. look like a form) you might be well of with FastTrack. FastTrack can even, I am told, be used by end users for report writing and QBF. One little piece of advice: If Progress is to be used in BIG applications it might be a good idea to take the Progress course that stresses index analysis. We had some very bad expiriences with response times because we didn't know what we were doing with the indexes (you can build the prototypes, though, without thinking of indexes, you can add them later). >It is available for DOS (as well as >UNIX and VMS). and even CTOS/BTOS too, if anybody is using that anymore. >They are Progress Software Corporation at 617-275-4500. My 2 cents, -- Jakob Riis, NCR Corporation Systems Engineering Copenhagen Jakob.Riis@ncrsecp.Copenhagen.NCR.COM or ....mcvax!enea!dkuug!ncrsecp!jr