Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 13:58:34 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@ki.net> To: Rashid Karimov <rashid@rk.ios.com> Cc: Mike Coffey & Yvonne Shevnin <mikec@mediacity.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shareware UNIX/SQL database?? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960319135721.19979G-100000@ki.net> In-Reply-To: <199603190307.WAA00773@rk.ios.com>
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On Mon, 18 Mar 1996, Rashid Karimov wrote: > > > > Hello FreeBSDers: > > > > Do you guys know of a shareware (or cheap) UNIX/SQL database? > > Just something to start an inexpensive system with that could be replaced > > later with Informix, etc. File sizes would be small and performance will > > not initially be an issue. > > > > The use would be for a small web database application. Are any of you > > guys building Intranets yet? Live in the South Bay? Interested in web > > database app/Intranet work? > > You can try Postgres95 or mSQL. The later one > is very light and implements only small subset > of SQL , the former one is much more powerful > and extensible. > The only problem with the first one is that > to my knowledge all development on it was canceled > ( grant issue). > Nope, development still goes on, with a new release having come out less then a month ago, and two PATCHES to that release since then. The mailing list for it is relatively active. Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting System | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, Administrator | | Information and scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://www.ki.net | Communications, Inc
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