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From: rhoads@oasys.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.database
Subject: Re: Networked PC data base?
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Date: Wed, 21-Aug-85 13:10:19 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 21 13:10:19 1985
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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

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