Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site oasys.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!hao!nbires!oasys!rhoads From: rhoads@oasys.UUCP Newsgroups: net.database Subject: Re: Networked PC data base? Message-ID: <110@oasys.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 13:10:19 EDT Article-I.D.: oasys.110 Posted: Wed Aug 21 13:10:19 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 18:50:30 EDT References: <121200003@ima.UUCP> <394@uwmcsd1.UUCP> Organization: NBI,Inc, Boulder CO Lines: 28 > > > > We have, in our office, about 40 IBM PCs and the like all hooked together > > with an Ethernet. They share disk space and printers on two other PCs > > > > We need to have a multi-user data base, for keeping customer records and > > We looked at getting ORACLE, which claims to be (or will be) a networked > database. I suspect it is far off from becoming networked. In the meantime, > we will probably be using UNIFY in a distributed environment, where a user > can get on any machine, update a database, and have the change propagated to > the other machines. Sending it over the ETHERNET seems to be the fastest > way at the moment. > > Unfortunately, most of these databases run under UNIX, rather than the > so-called PC standards. I would be interested if any one has a networked > database that also runs under non-UNIX systems .. > > -jerry ihnp4!uwmcsd1!jerry > University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Some folks around here have been using Team-Up (tm) for PC's on a LAN, and seem to like it quite a bit. It comes from Unlimited Processing, Inc, 8382 Baymeadows Rd., Suite 8, Jacksonville, FLA 32216. Of course, nobody has anything to do with these statements but me. "I knew I shoulda made that left turn at Alburqurque" --B. Bunny