Re: Oracle - Paradox Comparison/Questions

I think that I said that more gently, and from an architectural point of view; I agree with your general sentiments, minus the mace, sledgehammer, and phosphorus grenades. I think that's why he wished a private response.

RSH.

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R. S. Hunter
Senior DBA / Architect
VLDB/DW-DM & HA Systems
Great Falls, MT
"damorgan" <dan.morgan_at_ci.seattle.wa.us> wrote in message
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> 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.

>