Re: Oracle or Sybase?

In <3a0i0s$fu2_at_andromeda.rutgers.edu> Richard D Holowczak writes:
>prg_at_rampart.rco.qc.ca (David McCabe) writes:
>
>>In article <39r6ej$p1v_at_ucsbuxb.ucsb.edu>,
>>Mark Schmidt <markts_at_mcl.ucsb.edu> wrote:
>>>
>
> 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.
>
There is one problem with this solution though. Once you have implemented your applications this way, it will be very costly to move to another DBMS vendor, because they only work with Oracle databases as far as I know. Most SQL front-ends from third-party vendors support multiple DBMS backends.

Then answer to the original question is of course: DB2 for OS/2 or DB2/6000.

Anton Versteeg - IBM - Uithoorn Netherlands - TEAMOS2 NL Received on Sat Nov 12 1994 - 13:08:27 CET