| Title: | DEC Rdb against the World |
| Moderator: | HERON::GODFRIND |
| Created: | Fri Jun 12 1987 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Feb 23 1995 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1348 |
| Total number of notes: | 5438 |
Can anyone shed some light on the ability and options in accomplishing
the following. I'm familar with the VMS side of things but not
with Ultrix.
My customer is interested in doing all of their development work on
Ultrix, specifically on a DECstation 3100. They want to then be
able to move the application to their VAXCluster running VMS. The
application will be a database application and we're trying to
get them to use RDB. I've determined ( I think ) that the application
would be best written in portable C. I'm trying to figure out if
INGRES would be a good fit as far as the database product? Does
anyone have any comments on this. I'm not familiar with INGRES at
all so any info would be greatly appreciated.
The idea here of course would be to have something that I can move
over without any changes. Is this realistic? How close can we come?
Thanks,
Lee
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| 440.1 | Hmmm...why the Ultrix preference? | DPDMAI::DAVISGB | Gil Davis DTN 554-7245 | Thu Sep 28 1989 21:14 | 7 |
Any reason as to why they want to develop under Ultrix? Seems that
they would be able to do a better job with VMS' set of case and data
management products, and then just copy it over! Otherwise they'll be
looking at a conversion effort.
Especially in light of the target system being VAX/VMS!
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| 440.2 | ULTRIX/SQL... | SRFSUP::LANGSTON | Lead Foot Langston | Fri Sep 29 1989 02:28 | 48 |
While I also question why anyone would ever leave the cozy confines
of VAX/VMS to do s/w development *especially* with VAX/VMS being the
target, I pass along the following message I received today: (btw,
I have not verified that the below-referenced conference exists.)
There is a notes conference for UTRIX/SQL, SMURF::ULTRIX_SQL.
From: AKOCOA::HAGGERTY "GIA Software Services 27-Sep-1989 1505" 27-SEP-1989 12:44:33.85
To: @dist:databases
CC:
Subj: short product overview for ULTRIX/SQL database
ULTRIX/SQL is an integration of an industry standard SQL Distributed
Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) engine into the ULTRIX-32
Operating System in order to allow for development of portable
applications using standard compliant SQL. ULTRIX/SQL Version 1.0 is
initially implemented using technology based on Relational Technology
Inc.'s INGRES RDBMS release 6.2.
Replies to this note may be used in the future to provide more detailed
general information on the product offerings.
The following family of products will initially be offered:
o ULTRIX/SQL Base System (licensed with ULTRIX-32 as of V4.0),
including:
- ULTRIX/SQL RDBMS Engine
- NET and STAR (remote access & distributed DB) functionalities
- Database Administrator and Optimization Tools
- User and DBA Documentation, including on-line man pages
o Embedded SQL precompilers for (initially) C, FORTRAN, and ADA
o ULTRIX/SQL <-> VAX-Rdb/SQL Translators for C and FORTRAN
o Rdb Gateway for Rdb accesses from ULTRIX/SQL environment
o DSRI Bridge for ULTRIX/SQL access from Rdb environment
o ISV and Digital Front-end Tools
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| 440.3 | It's SMURFY | DPDMAI::DAVISGB | Gil Davis DTN 554-7245 | Fri Sep 29 1989 02:35 | 5 |
Yes, it exists..as shown in note 436 I believe..
where you can also press KP7 to add!!!
(and......Be prepared to get religion.)
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| 440.4 | Need info on writing portable applications | COOKIE::BERENSON | I'm the NRA | Mon Oct 02 1989 19:35 | 5 |
So, the correct answer is, if the customer has good reason to do cross-development they want to use Ultrix/SQL (or whatever we call the thing when it is finally product announced, remember it is only PROGRAM announced). The main reason is that there will be documentation on how to write portable applications! | |||||