What is right selection of tools?

I need Your help for choosing right configuration. It seems to me that Informix is right choise, but on our limited information I cannot figure out right configuration. We are small newspaper (ca. 100 000 subscribers, biggest in Estonia). Our needs are usual accountig procedures, processing subscriptions and processing articles and advertisments. Currently some of this software is written in C using homemade libraries, some of it in foxpro. Some of it runs under unix, some under dos. Some of it is still unimplemented. Now we are considering to rewrite it in uniform fashion both for dos and unix using some good database system. After all we have financal limitations about 3000$ for buying software (its big money for us, as average salary in estonia is about 50 dollars in month). Programs must run both on dos and SCO unix. (We have 3 unix machines and about 20 dos boxes). So far i have considered the following configuration: for unix - Informix Standard Engine - Informix 4GL Rapid Development System or ESQL/C for dos - Informix NET-PC with Sun PC-NFS Now i have some questions about abowe configuretions which i can't resolve due to my limited informationt. - is Informix NET all what we need for dos, can we run applications produced in unix by 4GL-RDS on dos or we must buy separate products for dos? - if something more is needed, what and why? - what are advantages of 4GL-RDS against ESQL/C (its much cheaper, and its realy important for us) - does ESQL/C include libraries for menu, forms, ... creation (of course there remains possibility to write them in C) - does the Standard Engine include recovery possibilities ? Please replay by mail to the following address: taavi@pm.postimees.ee -- Taavi Talvik | Newspaper "Postimees", Tartu, Estonia taavi@pm.postimees.ee | Software R&D division Phone: (7-01434) 31-551 | EE2400 Gildi 1, Tartu, Estonia Fax: (7-01434) 33-348 |