With this type of product it really depends whether the vendor is using the DBMS as a mere data storage facility with all the manipulation carried out by the client application, or if they are building a robust database. Broadly speaking, it should be impossible for a client application to affect the integrity of the data in a database. This involves a level of 'intelligence' being built into the database itself, in the form of triggers, functions and transactions. When a database is designed in this way it takes a large amount of work to move it from one DBMS to another, because all differ in the implementation of these features (despite SQL, which is reasonably standard). This being the case, it would probably be better if companies would focus on supporting one commercial and one open source (or at least freely available) DBMS. All the best, Nial. At 05:59 24/01/2002 +0000, you wrote:
Our `Database Server' from our business products range is IMB's DB2 on top of the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, and has been available for a while.
http://www.suse.co.uk/uk/products/suse_business/database_server/index.html
We also resell Adabas
http://www.suse.co.uk/uk/products/software/databases/adabas/index.html
Both these are third party and under commercial licences.
However, going back to the earlier posts in this thread, the more people shout at the vendor about the meaning of `any', the better.
On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Chris Puttick wrote:
Try Borland Interbase OE - much higher performance than MS SQL Server, with the assurance of a big brand name and option of paying for support. Also SuSE do a database solution...
BTW, how much is that costing, and have they committed to it?
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