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- From: "Marcel Offermans" <marcel@wbmt41.wbmt.tudelft.nl>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Visual Basic for Amiga - A possibility ?
- Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 15:54:44 +0100
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- Hello Pete,
-
- >> We could very well use a good SQL based relational DB engine. It would
- >> be great if this could be integrated into the OS. The OS itself could
- >> also benefit from such an engine. Make it network compatible (client-
- >> server or distributed) and it would be even better.
-
- > Yeah! Have you seen Illustra (now owned by Informix)? While the engine
- > is UN*X based, and the only non-UN*X client is for Windowz, this would
- > be an incredible addition/enhancement to the Amiga platform. It is a
- > type- less Object-Oriented SQL-compliant system which can execute code
- > from its own tables. It was designed to interact in real-time with the
- > net/web. It can do on-the-fly image format translations, and just about
- > anything else. I have seen a database of images searched for "pictures
- > of people with moustaches", without using "keywords" - wild!
-
- I'm afraid I'm not familiar with Illustra. It certainly sounds very nice.
- My only worry with such a system would be its size. In order to keep the OS
- small, you'd have to add only basic support for databases to it. But I
- guess that is possible with any system (by just supplying extensions as
- separate libraries).
-
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