Date: Thu, 02 Feb 1995 10:53:21 EDT From: "M.C Wong" <mcw@hpato.aus.hp.com> To: jkh@FreeBSD.org (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: hsu@freefall.cdrom.com, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: POS (was Re: sup: Ok, I'm gonna do it.) Message-ID: <199502012354.AA167432870@hp.com> In-Reply-To: <17408.791632879@time.cdrom.com>; from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Feb 01, 95 2:01 am
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> For databases, they could go Ingres or even spend some time beating on > postgres to make it something more of what they want. For a lot of > applications, however, even that's overkill and they could always just > use their own file format and B-trees or something. The DB package we > ship with isn't even that bad now, actually, and you could certainly > do something like a small sawmill's work-order database with it. > > Jordan > For databases, if you can convince Multisoft to do a port of FlagShip for *BSD, that will be great. They've got one for Linux, and are well received. VERSASOFT even has dBASE III+ compatible DBMS for Linux as well. Both have got demo and well, they look great! -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ M.C Wong Email: mcw@hpato.aus.hp.com Australian Telecom Operation Voice: +61 3 272 8058 Hewlett-Packard Australia Ltd Fax: +61 3 898 9257 31 Joseph St, Blackburn 3130, Australia OS: FreeBSD-1.1.5.1 http://hpautow.aus.hp.com:9999/~mcw/mcw.html (or http://hpautorf/~mcw)
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