Well I have used SQL under Unix specifically under SCO , it was a pretty
big proyect and it was made under cliente-server philosophy, the client
part was made under MS-DOS and Windows.
I dont know exactly how expensive is the lisence of SQL but this is a
better option than Oracle, becouse of his portability , the problem is
that I dont know if there is SQL for Linux.
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Alfonso Barreto Lopez Inst. de Inv. de Matematicas U.N.A.M
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Michael Jinks wrote:
> This is the Big Enchalada; our company was born and bred on DOS for the
> past several years, and we've got the legacy in-house apps to prove it.
> Specifically, we have an immense body of software written to do database
> conversions in MS FoxPro, now ported to Visual FoxPro and running on NT
> machines.
>
> Needless to say, there would be reams of reasons to start doing some of
> this stuff on a Linux platform, but while we do have one programmer
> currently familiarizing himself with C indexing routines, by and large
> we're pretty blind when it comes to database manipulation in the *n*x
> world. This is even more silly when you consider that more and more of
> our customers and vendors are on unix (or AIX).
>
> The goal isn't really to port all of our existing apps to Linux; that
> would just be too much work and for now FoxPro is adequate for most of
> the jobs we do. But I'm convinced that our long-term efficiency would
> get a boost if we gradually found Linux ways of running conversions.
>
> Can anyone point me to some signposts? Is Oracle worth the money and
> learning curve (and if so will it run on Linux)? We already know we
> hate Informix, and all accounts (some admittedly a couple of years old)
> have said that FoxPro is a dog on unix.
>
> When I've been to the web sites that list applications for Linux, the
> database programs seemed to be tilted more toward using and maintaining
> databases than toward manipulating them, so it's been difficult to
> select packages to try out. What we really need is a grown-up version
> of FoxPro, basically a fast, powerful set of database manipulation
> routines and some sort of front end for controlling them. All that
> fancy user-interface stuff and database maintainance tools would
> probably go to waste around here. But writing all of that from scratch
> in C (or whatever) seems like it would be not only terribly tedious but
> probably reinventing the wheel as well.
>
> As usual, all thoughts and wild conjecture welcome; this is a long-range
> project and I don't need to put anything in place any time soon.
>
> -m
>
>
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