Re: Which database I should choose?

In article <4qerur$d0r@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, Billy Wheeler <bw000001@pixie.co.za> writes >Jian, > >Almost any of the UNIX databases will give you the necessary results. I >would be completely against MS Access (I don't think it will perform well >when you grow) and I'm not a big SQL Server fan. > >Obviously the people in comp.databases.informix will advise Informix, and >those in comp.databases.oracle will advise Oracle. > >I don't know what hardware/OS you're looking at, but Informix does run on NT >and most UNIXes. Informix will certainly cope with the growth and it >integrates well with a networked environment. The tools are pretty good >(Informix-4GL) and a lot of client software will talk if you want to run >client/server. > I had a client who had implmented an internal system using MS-Access for 80 users. We were asked to replace it with VB/Informix since Access only supports page level locking, they kept on getting deadlocks on their system. -- David Williams