Re: Which database I should choose?

5gk9sunj@vms.csd.mu.edu (JIANGUO SUN) wrote: >Hi, I am working on selecting database for internal management of our company. >I have experience on development of Oracle database but we can afford this >money hunger system. So I have to choose a system which will be cheaper, >big enough for 50 employee company, flexible in programming and management, >like Oracle develop environment (sql based programming) and RDBMS. >The database will be used to develop intranet system. I know that there are >couple of systems which are popular such as ms access, informix, sql server, >paradox .. but I have no idea which one should be good for our application. >It will be very appreciated if anyone can give me some basic ideas about the >selection. >Thanks in advance. > >-Jian (my email: sun1@mscs.mu.edu) > > You'd do well to evaluate Informix's OnLine and Standard Engine products. Another interesting option is Illustra (recently bought by Informix), which is very extensible, and has Object Oriented elements. Be sure to look at the Web Datablade, which allows you to store your pages in the database, and setup dynamic queries, format the results into HTML "on the fly" and... Better check out the Illustra home page (www.illustra.com) for some neat demos. No, I don't work for Informix :) Regards, Lawrence