From: Mike Irwin [CTech] Subject: Re: Looking for the database Date: 1999/01/01 Message-ID: #1/1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <75u232$kr1$1@news.netvision.net.il> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Trace: news3.voicenet.com 915228073 209.71.53.7 (Fri, 01 Jan 1999 17:01:13 EDT) Organization: CTech Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: mirwin@voicenet.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 17:01:13 EDT Newsgroups: comp.databases.paradox,comp.databases.object,comp.databases.olap,comp.databases.oracle.marketplace,comp.databases.oracle.misc,comp.databases.oracle.server,comp.databases.oracle.tools,comp.databases.pick,comp.databases.progress,comp.databases.rdb As you've posted this to a Paradox forum here (amongst others), I'll keep to Paradox: 1. Royalty free for distribution. A. Yes. You pay a 1-time fee for a RunTime package with which you create your distributable image (on floppies or CD) 2. Editable. A. ? This one you'll have to explain. If you mean "Programmable" then most definitely Yes !! 3. Easily contain HTML and its content (images, links) and other document. A. Yes. As text, formatted text, or BLObs. email addresses and web sites can be displayed as active links that will launch a browser. 4. Has Text search capabilities + Includes support for embedded SQL. A1. Yes A2. Yes 5. The client should be able to submit SQL queries to the remote server database such as Oracle or Sybase (ODBC, JDBC, etc) and receive the results (any type of data, including Internet media) in an efficient manner proper for low bandwidth connection. A. You're not being very specific here. Paradox is not a thin client, which seems to be what you're looking for here. However, a thin client won't supply most of the other requirements. 5. System requirements : win95/98/NT A. You can get hold of versions of Paradox that will run on an 80286 and retain table-compatibility with today's Windows versions. Some people are using just such a combination. -- Mike Irwin [Volunteer CTech Sysop, not a Corel employee Please post enquiries and responses to the Corel newsgroups (cnews.corel.ca).]