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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

> > 
> > 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

We are developing a system the uses the IDM 500.
I think the relational model is a very high level modeling environment
for solving (and then re-solving) data modeling problems.
As a system developer who likes to prototype, the IDM is fantastic.
Of course, there are other database systems that support the relational
model, but I only have experience with this one.

Our system is:
	- several 3b20 connected to several IDM 500 via rs232 @ 9600 BAUD
	  The IDM 500 already supports ethernet, but we can't use it yet.
	- brand new, our users have not really used the system.
	- We currently support application program with embedded
	  relational (QUEL) commands
	- We expect the database administrator for our field system
	  to use the interactive realtional query process.

Uncertainities about the IDM xxx
	- It may be difficult to justify spending money for a backend
	  database machine for an application with 10 PCs
	- Britton-Lee still needs to work on efficiency, they are trying
	  and we haven't really learned about what is available
	  Be sure you check this out.

Mark Vonder Haar
{ihnp4|cbosgd}!cbnap!mvh

> 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.

OK, I'll bite.  What's Team-Up?
-- 
  /  \    Bill Crews
 ( bc )   Cyb Systems, Inc
  \__/    Austin, Texas

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In article <121200003@ima.UUCP> johnl@ima.UUCP writes:
....
>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
>running the 3Com EtherShare stuff.  We have, for the PC world, a lot of
>data -- one of the servers has a 470MB Fujitsu Eagle disk.
>
>We need to have a multi-user data base, for keeping customer records and
>things like that.
>
>Has anybody any experience with something like this?  
> ...
>
>John Levine, Javelin Software, Cambridge MA 617-494-1400
>{ decvax!cca | think | ihnp4 | cbosgd }!ima!johnl, Levine@YALE.ARPA

We've been looking at distributed database packages for IBM PCs using
Microsoft's MS-Net or IBM's PC-Net interface.  So far packages we've
gotten demonstration diskettes for are LAN:datastore from Software
Connections and DATAFLEX from Data Access Corp.  A year or two ago, we
purchased a single-user version of Revelation from COSMOS; it is also
available in a networking version.

All of these packages are designed to provide multi-user access to a 
database with locking at the record level.  Except for Revelation, they
provide a programming interface (C-callable functions) in addition to
an ad hoc query interface.  Revelation provides an enhanced (sic) BASIC
interpreter with their package.

Another package that approaches the problem from a different perspective,
but has now come up with a similar package is the Btrieve/N library from
SoftCraft.  They originally developed B-tree and ISAM routines for
application programmers to use on a stand alone PC.  They made it
distributed and network-oriented.  Then they added a report writer and
ad hoc query language.  All these are available as seperate packages.

I don't have the phone numbers or addresses for these companies handy.
If you'd like more information, send me mail.

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Skip Addison
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> 
> OK, I'll bite.  What's Team-Up?
> -- 
>   /  \    Bill Crews
>  ( bc )   Cyb Systems, Inc
>   \__/    Austin, Texas
> 

Team-Up is a shared database for IBM PC's on a local area network.
-- 

Rhoads Hollowell    {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires![oasys!]rhoads

"I knew I shoulda made dat left turn at Alburqurque!!"
					--B. Bunny