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> I'm developing a patient medical record system for a community-based hospital
> built around Unix workstations....
> ....The configuration requires a minimum of 30 nodes; the
> relational DBMS must support a least 12 different views of the medical
> database, which will have 68+ relations.

This may seem very silly.  It did to me when I was told but...  A close
friend of mine who does consulting work in the areas of communications,
networking and UNIX was once working with a hospital.  They ruled out
use of ethernet because it is expected to have failures (i.e.
collisions) and they were afraid that some clever lawyers might label
this as negligence.  Lawyer to jury:  "this institution installed a
system expected to have periodic failures which would delay critical
patient information.  Yet they tell you they care about their
patients".  Yes I know it's ridiculous but that was their concern.
You can bet the lawyer would carefully pick a technically naive jury.

Anyway the point is, before proceeding with your system you might
want to check up with the hospital administration and legal people.
I can refer you to my friend for more information if you like.
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