Re: RDBMS's and the WWW

On Feb 12, 3:01pm, Colin Fraizer wrote: > Subject: RDBMS's and the WWW > The sales people I have talked to seem to have no idea about this issue, > so > I turn to the net's wisdom: > > We would like to use the Web on an intranet to be the front-end to a > relational > database. What licensing is required for the Web client machines? I am > particularly interested in Informix, Ingres, Oracle, and Sybase. > > Thanks for your help. > Colin Fraizer > cpfraize@dawg.delcoelect.com >-- End of excerpt from Colin Fraizer It's probably too new for most of the sales people. On the client end all you need is a WEB browser such as Netscape or a free one like Mosaic. No major licensing issue here the whole point of the web is that the clients are thin and cheap. Informix has a deal with Netscape to bundle Netscape WEB Server software with thier Online database. Then you just need to create some cgi scripts and form based documents and hey presto you are publishing database information on the web. Most of the others are doing something similar or developing thier own servers. Cheers - Jim -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Gordon DHL Airways Inc. jgordon@us.dhl.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- My opinions are my own. They may vary with time but they remain mine!