| Title: | DEC Rdb against the World |
| Moderator: | HERON::GODFRIND |
| Created: | Fri Jun 12 1987 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Feb 23 1995 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1348 |
| Total number of notes: | 5438 |
One of the local salesrep has asked me to choose THE 4GL for a
customer. It has to do everything ofcourse..... Well, the customer
has a finacial package that uses ORACLE ( SQL*Forms I believe ) and
will make a new leasing-application ( that's their business ) instead
of their old IBM with a strange OS. The new environment will be
ACMS/RDB/C/FORMS ( we will do the job ).
The salesrep naturally proposed INGRES!!! as THE 4GL solution for the
whole company and he firmly believes that INGRES Tools can work on
top of an Oracle DB, just as easy as it accesses RDB. ARGGGG......
That is a new one to me - please confirm that he is wrong.
/uw
PS Now we just have to make the application look like ALL-IN-1 and
get it into production before ALL-IN-1 changes its user-interface DS
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 541.1 | No, No | CLYPPR::BOOTH | What am I?...An Oracle? | Thu Jan 18 1990 19:48 | 4 |
No, Ingres tools will not work with Oracle. Try SmartStar. It will
read/write to both Rdb and Oracle transparently.
---- Michael Booth
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| 541.2 | Great, just one of those strange rumours | STKHLM::WAHLQVIST | Fri Jan 19 1990 09:31 | 11 | |
Great, I thought I had missed something. Now I can start from the
right end - ask them what they want to do...
By the way, we have a few Smartstar installations over here. I'm not
to impressed. The real applications seems to contain 80% Pascal doing
calls to Smartstar's SQL$INTERPET, but I guess that is something that
many 4GL's have in common when you really want to write real
applications.
/uw
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