>1. Just how good is Allbase?
 
    Allbase is an excellent alternative on the HP3000. It will provide
    the best price/performance alternative. I have found it to be
    relatively trouble free.
 
>2. Can it support a large application?
 
    You might find it to be limited for large applications primarily
    due to limitations in functionality. Be sure to compare it with
    other available RDBMSs available to make sure it will meet your
    application requirements.
 
>3. How well does it interact with PowerHouse?
 
    We have no problems using it with PowerHouse, although most of
    our applications are TurboIMAGE based. Again, check your
    application functionality requirements. You may also consider
    PowerHouse limitations as PowerHouse is not yet relational
    database friendly--we have one HP9000 PowerHouse application
    that works with Allbase BUT we had to do some special coding
    to work around the problems that we faced. The latest release
    of PowerHouse has eliminated some of these problems but I
    am not up to date with how they are working out.
 
>4. As far as Open Systems are concerned, how "open" is it?
 
    Allbase is "open" with respect to SQL standards. However, if
    you are developing client/server applications, it is limited
    with respect to interoperability.
 
>
>I would be interested in responses to these questions from anyone who has
>had first-hand experience with it.
>
>Thanks!
>Tim
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