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- From: bernie@metapro.DIALix.oz.au (Bernd Felsche)
- Subject: Re: Progress DBMS?? Info..
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.014254.28908@metapro.DIALix.oz.au>
- Organization: MetaPro Systems, Perth, Western Australia
- References: <1h3ug9INNco1@lester.appstate.edu> <1992Dec21.201336.29965@bts.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 01:42:54 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- In <1992Dec21.201336.29965@bts.com> paulr@bts.com (Paul Raulerson) writes:
-
- >In article <1h3ug9INNco1@lester.appstate.edu>
- >jvs@lester.appstate.edu (John V. Scalco) writes:
- >>
- >> Does anyone know what Progress DBMS is...what platform it
- >> runs under, what it is like etc.
-
- >> appreciate any info you could provide.
-
- >> please mail directly to me.......ahhhh you can post it if you
- >> want to ifyou want, I read this newsgroup all the time..
-
- >Progress runs under just about any UNIX, DOS, BTOS, and bunches of
- >other systems (including A/UX on Macintoshes). It is a very nice database,
- >with a beautiful 4GL and full SQL dialects.
-
- Beauty is in the eye of the beholder :-) The 4GL is very
- practical and is procedural, reminiscent of AlphaBasic
- (don't let that put you off!).
-
- The SQL facility is useful, though not as complete as Sybase's.
-
- >It has wonderful transaction capabilities, and a very good crash recovery
- >system. In most respects, it is quite comparable to Oracle.
-
- Join the Progress mailing list;
- progress-list@math.niu.edu
- by sending a message to join to
- progress-list-request@math.niu.edu
- --
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