I agree with Donald.
Although it would be nice if R:Base was C/S you can get very similar
capabilities by hooking it up to Terminal Server or Citrix Metaframe. In
some ways this is even better than traditional C/S databases like
SQLServer since both the front end and the back end run on the same box.
This can make for much easier application maintenance.
There is already too much competition in the C/S database market.
R:Base fills an important niche that products like MS Access don't come
close to serving.
My $.02
Tony
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Subject: RE: BASE Web Front End
I disagree that R:base needs to be client server. R:Base fills a very
large
and important niche. R:Base is more than just a RDMS, as it also provides
the interface and programming language. If you move away from the core
competancy of R:Base and try to tackle the C/S market, it will make
R:Base
compete against other C/S database engines like DB2, Oracle, Sybase,
MSSQL,
and Btrieve to name a few. If Informix couldn't make it...
Thank You
Donald Burr
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Victor Leach
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 4:09 AM
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Subject: RE: BASE Web Front End
Hi James
I agree with David , R:BASE needs to be client server if it is to gain
market share.
Corporates want client server.
Is a big re-write ?
Regards
Victor
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of David Ballantyne
> Sent: Tuesday, 29 May 2001 5:53 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: BASE Web Front End
>
>
> Hi James
>
> . Is R:Base for Linux going to be client-server database? MySQL is.
>
> This is definitely a question for RBTI...
>
> I asked Microrim for many years to C/S the product. They even
> announced it
> a couple of times in the early-mid 90's, yet nothing ever came of
> it. This
> was despite the fact that there were many internal Microrim claims at
the
> time, that the job was not huge as a large chunk of the source
> code already
> existed in the (now very dead) Vanguard product. (mmmm - perhaps
> there was
> much more work in the job than Microrim 1st thought). In my
> oppinion, this
> is still one of the biggest enhancement issues that needs to be
addressed.
>
> Since all (previous) R:BASE products came from the same code base (and I
> would assume this is still the case), If R:BASE for Linux were to become
a
> C/S product, then the Win and DOS products would be likely to
> become C/S by
> nature.
>
> Perhaps Razzak could shed some more light for us all on the C/S issue.
>
> Kindest Regards
>
>
>
> David Ballantyne
>
>
Donald C Burr.vcf
