Re: RDBMS's and the WWW

Roy Hann wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Feb 1996, Colin Fraizer wrote: > > > 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. > > With Ingres you have several choices. You can buy OpenIngres 1.2 and get > Ingres/Web as a standard feature. You can buy OpenIngres/ICE > (ICE=Internet Commerce Enabled), which is basically the same thing with a > different licence. Or you can use Ingres 6.4 and one of the web > interfacing tools from the North American Ingres User Association tool > archive. Actually, you have another option. We've augmented our character-based ABF/4GL applications with some INTRAnet applications built with WebinTool and Ingres. We are VERY pleased with WebinTool, especially since it's public domain software and almost NO learning curve involved. You can find WebinTool at http://www.ri.bbsrc.ac.uk/webintool.html, or write to the author (Dr. Jian Hu, jian.hu@bbsrc.ac.uk). Note, WebinTool can be adapted to almost any SQL-based DBMS. Chuck Maiden, Information Systems Analyst Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA