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Re: need a cheapter database

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From: David Bath
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 04:32
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davek@osc.COM (Dave Kellogg) writes:

>>In article <1993Jan12.183945.18148@cs.umb.edu> droberts@ra.cs.umb.edu (Drake M.  
>Roberts) writes:
>> Are there any databases for the NeXT which are cheaper than
>> Sybase and Oracle and can still be used by an Objective-C
>> app via DBKit?

>Since you just said "database," and not specifically RDBMS, you might
>look at object DBMSs as well.  VERSANT runs on the NeXT and because of an
>introductory price offer, I suspect it's much cheaper than RDBMSs (though
>I don't know their pricing).

What about gdbms - FREE and available at your nearest GNU archive.
Use Perl to get to it easily.
I also say a SQL-YACC somewhere - I might be able to dig it up if there
is an OVERWHELMING response.

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Subject: Re: need a cheapter database
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