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- From: tensmekl@infonode.ingr.com (Kermit Tensmeyer)
- Subject: Re: Objects and Oracle?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug29.222011.12654@infonode.ingr.com>
- Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
- References: <1992Aug28.214443.24903@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 22:20:11 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug28.214443.24903@IRO.UMontreal.CA> jalbert@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Francois Jalbert) writes:
- >Greetings all!
- >
- >Our company develops software to run under Windows using the toolbook package
- >in the early development phases. We do everything using objects and fairly
- >complex inheritance schemes. Our current task is to develop some software to
- >act as a front end to some relational database system. We are currently trying
- >to figure out if Oracle might do the job for us. We phoned the local Oracle
- >outfit but their answers were very vague, to say the least. I hope that by
- >asking to net, somebody out there will know more than our local Oracle folks.
- >
- >Primarily, the database manager we seek should
- >
- > - be a true RDBMS
- > - manage table creation and updates using SQL commands
- > - run under Windows 3.1 on top of DOS 5.0
- > - be callable from C (or C++) according to the DB2 standard of embedded SQL
- > - support referential integrity, transaction security (commit rollback),
- > multiusers, networks, to name the few I can think of at the moment.
-
- Now I know what I _mean_ when I say a true RDBMS manager, but what do
- you mean when you use the term? If you are asking if any commerical
- product meet more than 75% of the criteria that Codd used to define
- an RDBMS, then the answer is NO. There are no commercial True RDBMS's
- available.
-
- Is it possible to support multiuser client/serever on anything other
- than a dedicate machine under dos. I don't think so.
-
- There may well be a single user version of Oracle and or Informix
- that will run on Windows 3.1 or even NT.
-
- The problem is not Intel, but the operating system. If you would upgrade
- your requirements to use a modern system you cound network several
- user interface systems around a central server and then use either
- Informix SE or Oracle. Unless your application has only a trival
- use for databases, stay the hell away from Informix standard engine.
- >
- >
- >
-
-
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- Kermit Tensmeyer | Intergraph Corporation
- Life is sometimes a bowl of Cherries; Watch out for the pits;
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