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Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.server -> PostgreSQL 6.1 competes with oracle!!
Three years from now PostgreSQL will kill Oracle!! Because the open
software development is much more powerful concept than the
closed/hidden software development which is used for developing the
Oracle database.
Check out the new PostgreSQL 6.1 which was released 14 June 97.
Version 6.1 is more enhancements and bug fixes over version 6.0.
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PostgreSQL Version 6.1 RDBMS database ANSI SQL 92 compliant - Its FREE!!
PostgreSQL Version 6.1 is free database, complete source code is given
to you and is a Relational Database System compliant with ANSI SQL92
and SQL89 and runs on diverse hardware platforms and Operating
systems. Millions of PostgreSQL is installed as data servers, data
center servers, Web databases, WWW http database servers and
application servers.
PostgreSQL is the ONLY FREE database in the world which supports ANSI
SQL standards like SQL92, SQL89!! It is much more advanced and is a
object oriented relational database!! PostgreSQL can store more data
types than traditional datatypes like integer, characters,etc. - it
can store object datatypes like classes (Version 7.0 will make this
capabilities more advanced). PostgreSQL runs on Windows 95, Windows NT,
Solaris, HPUX, AIX, Linux, Irix, OS2, and all flavors of unix.
Title: PostgreSQL ANSI SQL92/ANSI SQL89 RDBMS Database (Relational Database Management System) Version: 6.1 Date of Release : 14 June 97 Age: PostgreSQL is 12 years old. Developed since 1985 Description: Powerful RDBMS database like Oracle, Sybase, Informix Authors: Developed by millions/universities on internet for the past 12 YEARS Primary WWW: http://www.postgresql.org/ Secondary WWW: http://logical.thought.net/postgres95/ http://www.itm.tu-clausthal.de/mirrors/postgres95/ http://s2k-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu:8000/postgres95/ Please help!! More mirror sites are needed!! Primary FTP: ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub Secondary ftp: ftp://ftp.chicks.net/pub/postgresql ftp://ftp.emsi.priv.at/pub/postgres/ ftp://ftp.itm.tu-clausthal.de/pub/mirrors/postgres95 ftp://rocker.sch.bme.hu/pub/mirrors/postgreSQL ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/dbms/postgres95 ftp://ftp.luga.or.at/pub/postgres95 ftp://postgres95.vnet.net:/pub/postgres95 Please help!! More mirror sites are needed!! More information: Go to yahoo and do search on 'postgresql' More than 260 topics will be listed on PostgreSQL. Also search on 'postgre' and
'postgres95'.
http://www.yahoo.com A Variant of PostgreSQL is Commercialised: PostgreSQL (variant) is commercialised & sold by Illustra Inc (Illustra was bought over by Informix Inc.) http://www.illustra.com GUI FrontEnd Tool for PostgreSQL : PostgreSQL has TCL/TK library in distribution. TCL/TK is a Rapid Application Development tool, more powerful than Microsoft Visual Basic. Develop once and run it everywhere on NT, Win 95, Linux, unixes!! To get TCL/TK - http://sunscript.sun.com/ http://sunscript.sun.com/TclTkCore/ ftp://ftp.sunlabs.com/pub/tcl/tcl8.0a2.tar.Z ODBC Drivers for PostgreSQL : http://www.ids.net/~bjepson/freeODBC/ http://www.openlinksw.com UDBC Drivers for PostgreSQL: UDBC is a static version of ODBC independent of driver managers and DLL support, used to embed database connectivity support directly into applications. http://www.openlinksw.com JDBC Drivers supported : Sun's Java connectivity to PostgreSQL http://www.demon.co.uk/finder/postgres/index.html ftp://ftp.ai.mit.edu/people/rst/rst-jdbc.tar.gz http://www.openlinksw.com Java RAD Tool for PostgreSQL: Java Rapid Application Tool for PostgreSQL http://www.man.ac.uk/~whaley/kj/kanch.html Java Classes for PostgreSQL : ftp://www.blackdown.org/pub/Java/Java-Postgres95 PostgreSQL 4GL for web database applications: http://www.man.ac.uk/~whaley/ag/appgen.html Perl 5 interface for PostgreSQL : Email: E.Mergl_at_bawue.de Web Database Design/Implementation tool for PostgreSQL: http://www.oswego.edu/Earp Windows Interactive Query Tool for PostgreSQL (WISQL): Email: keidav_at_accessone.com http://www.ucolick.org/~de/tcl_syb/wisql.html Email: de_at_ucolick.org Identical to Microsoft SQL server WISQL!! Interactive Query Tool - ISQL (Character command line terminals): Included in the distribution, called PSQL. Very similar to Sybase ISQL, Oracle SQLplus. WWW Web interface for PostgresSQL: http://www.cis-computer.com/dbengine/ Apache Webserver Module for PostgreSQL: http://www.neosoft.com/neowebscript/ PHP/FI Server-side html-embedded scripting language for PostgreSQL (WWW Interface Tool): http://www.vex.net/php "C" language Interface for PostgreSQL: Included in distribution
'libpq'. Similar to Oracle OCI, Sybase DB-lib,
Informix CLI libraries. "C++" language Interface for PostgreSQL: Included in distribution
'libpq++'.
PostgreSQL ESQL/C (Embedded C Pre-compiler) like Oracle Pro*C, Informix ESQL/C: ftp://ftp.lysator.liu.se/pub/linus Email : linus_at_epact.se Tested Platforms: Linux, MkLinux, Solaris, SunOS, HP-UX, AIX, Digital Unix, NetBSD, FreeBSD, BSDi, Irix, NEXTSTEP, SCO, Unixware, OS/2, NT, Windows 95 etc All flavors of unix. Use gcc, gmake for Win NT/95 to compile on win32, GNU gcc is available for win32. Check this site - http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32 Go here and get the file cdk.exe (self-extractor) Mailing Lists: See the Mailing Lists Item on the main web page. Email questions to: pgsql-hackers_at_postgresql.org To subscribe or unsubscribe from the list, send mail to pgsql-hackers-request_at_postgresql.org The body of the message should contain the single line subscribe (or) unsubscribe Documentations: Included in the distribution is the 'User Guide' for PostgreSQL, 'Implementation Guide' detailing database internals of PostgreSQL, online manuals, online manuals in HTML formats. Also manuals in Postscript format for printing hard copies. Reference docs: Useful reference textbooks : "Understanding the New SQL: A Complete Guide" - by Jim Melton and Alan R.Simon Morgan Kaufman Publisher is one of best SQL books. Hundreds of other titles on SQL are available! Check out a bookstore. Free Unix: Get a free Linux OS, providing "Bumper to Bumper" solution with 1,000,000 miles warranty, from operating system to database to front-end gui application - a Total Quality Solution. Check out these sites: http://www.caldera.com http://www.redhat.com
#include <all standard disclaimers> Received on Mon Jun 16 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT
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