Re: Which database / development environment?

If you mean you want to run Oracle on Novell, then be aware that Novell versions of Oracle can lag UNIX and NT versions by some time and that a lot of little things like free trial software and so on aren't available for Novell. In terms of Designer, if you have even a small Oracle database running, you can get a free trial download of Designer and play with it. Designer can run on your NT client workstation.

Van

Jules Alberts <julesa_at_arbodienst-limburg.nl> wrote in message news:38ad2fbb.1961402_at_news.cuci.nl...
> We're a small (30) company now using a selfmade application in Clipper
> with xBase tables. It has become quite complex (multi-user,
> centralised db with read-write replica's, e-mail capacity etc.) and we
> decided to switch to something that's less 3gl and has an rdbms which
> can take care of itself (relations, constraints, triggers).
>
> Also it should be easy to use, single logon on network account +
> database, should be easy to maintain. We use netware 4.11 and our
> current application is aware of who's using it, which groups you're in
> etc.
>
> At the moment I'm looking at two products, Oracle 8 with Designer 2000
> on netware and Progress 9 with provision on unix. Big advantage of
> Oracle is that it's NDS aware so I don't have to maintain users and
> groups twice. Also it runs on netware, which will make system
> administration much easier. I think the capacities of both rdbms's are
> OK, but provision seems to me not to be the case tool designer is
> (IMHO, I'm just looking at it, never used any of it).
>
> Does anybody have experience in a similar situation? Any advice is
> welcome, thanks in advance.
>
> Jules Alberts
> julesa_at_arbodienst-limburg.nl
Received on Fri Feb 18 2000 - 14:24:03 CST