[Coco] Hi coconuts, What's the best approach for doing a database

[Ward Griffiths]

On 11/04/2005 01:21 pm, John R. Hogerhuis wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 07:43 -0800, Neil Morrison wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ward Griffiths" <wdg3rd at comcast.net>
> >
> > > Would have been nice if there's been a port of the excellent database
> > > Radio
> > > Shack first called Profile II (not related to Mod 1 Profile or Color
> > > Profile)
> > > that later became Profile 16 on Tandy Xenix and still exists as filePro
> > > for
> > > sundry *ix and 'doze platforms <www.fptechnologies.com>.  It's been my
> > > preferred database development system and 4GL for somewhat over 20
> > > years. A
> > > bit expensive, unfortunately, for our Coco community.
> >
> > I've been maintaining one of those for 20 years - just about to shut it
> > down and convert to MS Access.
>
> I'm not sure I'd even consider that a lateral move ;-)
>
> If you're on Windows, maybe it would be better to just go with MSDE or
> SQL Server and C#.Net or VB.Net? All the necessary tools are available
> for free.

To me, any conversion from anything Unix-like to 'doze is a step down.  But 
I'm spoiled -- I learned Unix before I learned MS-DOS because Xenix started 
shipping to my RSCC in 1/83 (though I had a bit of a head start, one of my 
customers was a beta test site) and we started selling the T2k with MS-DOS 
eight months or so later.

I'd recommend attempting to implement the Access project before shutting down 
the filePro setup.  Moving the filePro app to a newer Linux system would 
probably be cheaper, depending on the number of seats.  There is a dynamite 
support organization in the filePro developer mailing list.

Then again, I consider SQL a lousy language.  I'm getting old and a bit set in 
my ways.
-- 
Ward Griffiths    wdg3rd at comcast.net

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