General Database Query

Path: emory!swrinde!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!wsu-cs!wsu-eng.eng.wayne.edu!upkar From: upkar@wsu-eng.eng.wayne.edu (Upkar Singh Kohli) Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.databases.informix Message-ID: <1992Jan7.001403.5590@cs.wayne.edu> Date: 7 Jan 92 00:14:03 GMT Reply-To: upkar@eng.wayne.edu.UUCP (Upkar Singh Kohli) Organization: Wayne State University, Detroit I am not a database expert, however, with this newsgroup access and company need, I have the following question. Our company with a computer systems environment of Sun and Iris workstations, PCs, Macs, Celerities, Cray, Apollo and DECStations (to give you a picture of heterogeneity) is planning to install a good database system, to be accessible from all or most of the above mentioned platforms. The purposes include customer tracking, billing/invoicing, Quotations, employee records, monthly billing by managers, monthly reports, etc. We are going to evaluate Progress and Informix very soon. However, I need suggestions from experts out there, with knowledge of application building, etc. What package(s) will be suitable for our TCP/IP environment? Are there any public domain packages or applications? What user interfaces are available? If you can, please e-mail me at upkar@trace.eng.wayne.edu Thanks in advance. Upkar Kohli