Re: Oracle or Sybase?

prg_at_rampart.rco.qc.ca (David McCabe) writes:

>In article <39r6ej$p1v_at_ucsbuxb.ucsb.edu>,
>Mark Schmidt <markts_at_mcl.ucsb.edu> wrote:
>>
>> easy question. the answer is progress.
>>
>> if your company insists it spend a fortune,
>> then oracle is expensive enough and often works.
 

> I heartily agree!! I have never used Oracle or Sybase, but
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> One of their strongest points is cross-platform compatability.
> The app we have here started as a small 50,000 line app on a 286
> running single-user DOS version. It has gone through Xenix and is
> now on SCO Unix, runing the whole company and supporting 35 users,
> and also gone through numerous version changes, (both OS and Progress),
> with the only changes made being for talking advantage of new features.
> Changing versions and OS's was done without the need for _any_ code
> changes in all that time! (About 7 1/2 years - from the info I have)
> Just recompile with your new compiler and go.
   

     As far as I have used Oracle, the SQL*Forms and SQL*Menu 
     package runs similarly (i.e. with no code changes) across
     platforms.  I'm not sure one can say the same of other
     databases/fron ends.  This is historically an Oracle
     feature although there have been some recent grumblings
     that they may be limiting the "universal" approach to
     platform support.

Rich Holowczak
Rutgers University
holowcza_at_andromeda.rutgers.edu Received on Fri Nov 11 1994 - 20:51:56 CET