Re: IDS-PE or equivalent

From: Mister Creosote <glynb@my-deja.com> > >We are currently designing a system that will need to be run on both a >UNIX server and in "standalone" mode on an WinNT/98/95-based laptop. >This is a VB application using ODBC calls to talk to IDS. In order that >the standalone version be operable, we need an equivalent to the old >IDS-PE. Here's the rub - I still have a copy of IDS-PE that would in >all probability suffice for our needs but the issue of support has been >raised. I am aware that IDS-PE is an unsupported product, but are there >any equivalents out there that have a small footprint (and hopefully a >correspondingly small price tag ?). > >All thoughts, recommendations etc gratefully received (even the >Clown's). Gee, thanks. How about Oracle8i Lite? See, Oracle is so far behind the curve, they haven't figured out that they don't need a lightweight version of their flagship database for portable use. Sybase have SQL Anywhere for lightweight use. I suppose you could use Cloudscape. Then if you ever need to synchronise with a UNIX master database, you're onto a winner. I don't know much about it, except that it's easy to synch up. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com