Re: Which database I should choose?

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. A more detailed description of your environment and application will help. Good luck. At 03:57 AM 6/21/96 GMT, JIANGUO SUN wrote: >Hi, I am working on selecting database for internal management of our company. >I have experience on development of Oracle database but we can afford this >money hunger system. So I have to choose a system which will be cheaper, >big enough for 50 employee company, flexible in programming and management, >like Oracle develop environment (sql based programming) and RDBMS. >The database will be used to develop intranet system. I know that there are >couple of systems which are popular such as ms access, informix, sql server, >paradox .. but I have no idea which one should be good for our application. >It will be very appreciated if anyone can give me some basic ideas about the >selection. Hasta la vista! -- billy.wheeler@pixie.co.za