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From: jerry@uwmcsd1.UUCP (Jerry Lieberthal)
Newsgroups: net.database
Subject: Re: Networked PC data base?
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Date: Sun, 18-Aug-85 14:38:21 EDT
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> 
> 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