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- From: jaak@stacken.kth.se (Jaak Lippmaa)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
- Subject: What is right selection of tools?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.202450.27118@kth.se>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 20:24:50 GMT
- Sender: usenet@kth.se (Usenet)
- Organization: Stacken Computer Club, Stockholm, Sweden
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- I need Your help for choosing right configuration. It seems to me that
- Informix is right choise, but on our limited information I cannot
- figure out right configuration.
-
- We are small newspaper (ca. 100 000 subscribers, biggest in Estonia).
- Our needs are usual accountig procedures, processing subscriptions and
- processing articles and advertisments. Currently some of this software
- is written in C using homemade libraries, some of it in foxpro. Some
- of it runs under unix, some under dos. Some of it is still
- unimplemented.
-
- Now we are considering to rewrite it in uniform fashion both for dos
- and unix using some good database system. After all we have financal
- limitations about 3000$ for buying software (its big money for us,
- as average salary in estonia is about 50 dollars in month).
-
- Programs must run both on dos and SCO unix. (We have 3 unix machines
- and about 20 dos boxes). So far i have considered the following
- configuration:
-
- for unix
- - Informix Standard Engine
- - Informix 4GL Rapid Development System or ESQL/C
-
- for dos
- - Informix NET-PC with Sun PC-NFS
-
- Now i have some questions about abowe configuretions which i can't
- resolve due to my limited informationt.
-
- - is Informix NET all what we need for dos, can we run applications
- produced in unix by 4GL-RDS on dos or we must buy separate products
- for dos?
- - if something more is needed, what and why?
- - what are advantages of 4GL-RDS against ESQL/C (its much cheaper, and
- its realy important for us)
- - does ESQL/C include libraries for menu, forms, ... creation (of
- course there remains possibility to write them in C)
- - does the Standard Engine include recovery possibilities ?
-
- Please replay by mail to the following address: taavi@pm.postimees.ee
-
- --
- Taavi Talvik | Newspaper "Postimees", Tartu, Estonia
- taavi@pm.postimees.ee | Software R&D division
- Phone: (7-01434) 31-551 | EE2400 Gildi 1, Tartu, Estonia
- Fax: (7-01434) 33-348 |
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