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From: matt@iquery.UUCP (Matt Reedy)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Interbase ?
Summary: I've heard of them
Message-ID: <152@iquery.UUCP>
Date: 14 Mar 89 13:17:19 GMT
References: <6095@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu>
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Organization: Programmed Intelligence, San Antonio
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In article <6095@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu>, ibrahim@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Hisham Ibrahim) writes:
> 
> We see
> Interbase ( a small company in mass.)  as a potential candidate. 
> 
> Has anybody out there seen, heard of, or 
> know anything about Interbase?
> 

I was perusing the April 89 issue of Unix World magazine, when lo and behold
on page 52-53 a nice advertising spread from Interbase.  My first exposure
to Interbase was in the VAX/VMS environment.  A 4GL company I work with is
reselling Interbase's database product on the VAX.  My limited understanding
of the situation is that Interbase is composed of some ex-DEC folks who felt
they could do a better job with an RDBMS than DEC.  Their product has a very
nice call level interface (on the VAX anyway) based on DEC's DSRI (Digital
Standard Relational Interface).  Their product appears to be very robust and
well supported.  Beyond that, I can't say much - I haven't really used their
database in a production enviornment.

matt

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