Re: Need On-Line and SQL????

In article <36ru92$4rb@clarknet.clark.net> charli@clark.net "Charlene C." writes: > We are using a Bull-Honeywell DPX/2 machine to a DPX/20. Bull, not Honeywell ! - I've just come from working for them! ;-) Is it a 2 or a 20? The 2 is the M68K based machine the 20 is the joint RS6K platform with IBM. If you're buying it now, its almost certainly a DPX/20. > > I am using Informix SQL 2.10 right now > they are suggesting that we purchase Informix SQL Development > and Runtime AND ALSO Informix On-Line Development and Run-Time. > Is this really necessary?? I am assuming (I know never assume) that I > certainly do not need the On-Line (which is $22,000 as opposed to $4,750). Well, sorry, but yes! The SQL product needs the OnLine product to work! The SQL MI refers to the SQL command line product set which allows you to enter SQL via a sophisticated interface and write simple applications in it. If you don't need this, you could just buy OnLine which includes the dbaccess tool which is a simpler SQL query tool aimed at developers rather than end users. Eoin. -- Eoin Woods, LBMS Plc, Evelyn House, 62 Oxford Street, London W1N 9LF, UK Tel: +44-71-636-4213 Email: Eoin@copse.demon.co.uk Fax: +44-71-66-2708 or E.Woods@ieee.org "When do we start newsgroup comp.os.emacs ? :-)" These are my opinions - don't blame my employer for them!