Re: Academic pricing comparisons for popular SQL packages

From: Richard G Ramirez <ramirez_at_IASTATE.EDU>
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1993 15:37:20 GMT
Message-ID: <1993Oct8.103720_at_IASTATE.EDU>

We went through this process last Spring. Previously we had been using Oracle 5 on PCs. It was dated and it cannot run at the time as Windows.

We chose a combination Quadbase/SQL and Microsoft Access. Quadbase/SQL is a great database engine with a simple interactive interface plus very easy C++ and Basic interfaces. Microsoft Access can read/update Quadbase databases and we use it as a front-end to Quadbase.

The network price for Quadbase/SQL is one tenth of Oracle with no significant difference in features. Quadbase has support for primary/foreign keys and outer joins which were lacking in Oracle 5.

Oracle as a company was not very friendly. Their SQL*Forms product is bad and difficult to use. The SQL is OK.

--
Richard G. Ramirez, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor of MIS
Iowa State University

Received on Fri Oct 08 1993 - 16:37:20 CET

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