Re: Oracle - Paradox Comparison/Questions

I would have a different concern about Paradox. The primary one being what company is selling it? What company is supporting it? And will there ever be another version of it? The product is a dead end! Both for your company ... and for your resume.

Go out to dice.com and see how many jobs there are for Paradox anything? I just found only 18 in the entire country. There are 4,535 for Oracle. Think if you learn Paradox you will be employable? Think you will have any luck finding new employees that either (A) know it, or (B) want to kill their resumes too? Heck might as well just go out and bang COBOL again.

Then you can get into the substantial differences in scalability, performance, security, and stability.

Daniel Morgan

Benjamin Stewart wrote:

> Greetings,
> I work for a company and up to now we have done lots of in house development
> of our main sales application. We have now decided to start look elsewhere
> for a product off the shelf that we can customise.
>
> Our current system is written in VB and we write lots of reports using
> Crystal reports and some Excel. The current application is a true
> Client/Server application and we use Microsoft SQL server as our DBMS.
>
> We have found 2 systems, one runs using ODBC connection to Paradox files and
> is written in Delphi. The other is written in Java and uses Oracle as a
> DBMS.
>
> I have come concerns about using Paradox in a user base of that size (and it
> is growing), but before I go to the business I want to get some feedback as
> to what peoples real world experiences are with a File server database
> product such as Paradox when compared to a Sybase/Oracle solution. There are
> obviously some business considerations that need to be taken into account
> when deciding what product to use, but I want to cover the technical
> aspects. These include;
> * Ease of support (DBA - are there any quirky things with
> paradox a standard DBA couldn't handle)
> * Ease of development - Reports
> * Ease of development - Other apps that might use/augment the
> new systems data
> * Robustness of the data in that database (backups, transaction
> logs etc).
> * expandability etc
> * Features - Does paradox have triggers, stored procedures,
> views etc ??
>
> Our current network is a MS Windows 2000 network, TCP/IP based with Windows
> 95,98,2000 and XP clients. Full 100Mbit backbone with 10MBit to desktops.
>
> If anybody has some real experience using paradox or has some details or
> information to its suitability I would appreciate you emailing it to me
> bens_at_harrythehirer.com.au.
>
> Thanks
> Ben.
Received on Mon Feb 25 2002 - 03:11:18 CET