No offense given or taken Donna, unless I have left my brain at the ranch,
but I'm throwing out this note for discussion and critique..
In any event, I do share, probably to a slightly lesser degree, your
concerns re. the HP3K...8~))
John M Penney
Department of Licensing
State of Washington
Olympia, WA
(360)664-1392
(360)586-1919 (Fax)
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"Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of my employer..."
> ----------
> From: Penney, John
> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 1:44 PM
> To: 'Donna Garverick'
> Subject: RE: [HP3000-L] Interbase 6.0 source released
>
> Donna:
>
> Oracle runs on the HP3000. I last worked with it 6 years ago 8~)).
>
> In any event, a Relational database engine like Oracle is not a selling
> point for HP, don't ask me why. It is also a fact that there are other
> ANSI Relational Databases which run on the HP...Interbase is apparently
> one.
>
> Have just a great day..
>
> John M Penney
> Department of Licensing
> State of Washington
> Olympia, WA
> (360)664-1392
> (360)586-1919 (Fax)
> [log in to unmask]
> "Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of my employer..."
>
> ----------
> From: Donna Garverick[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Reply To: Donna Garverick
> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 1:35 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Interbase 6.0 source released
>
> Mark Bixby wrote:
>
> > Jens von Bülow wrote:
> > > No offence Chuck, but why would you want to port a foreign database to
> the
> > > world's best database (and operating) system?
> >
> > But speaking in general terms, there are various opensource applications
> with
> > the capability of talking directly to various opensource databases such
> as
> > MySQL. If you really, really needed to have that specific application,
> you
> > might be motivated to also port the database too, which might possibly
> take
> > less time than designing a custom TurboIMAGE interface that would be
> usable by
> > the application.
>
> exactly. imo, a large impediment to getting other applications to run on
> a 3000
> is the lack of a 'mainstream' dbms. - d
>
> --
> Donna Garverick Sr. System Programmer
> 925-210-6631 [log in to unmask]
>
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