From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 1 15:54:38 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id PAA06389 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 1 Feb 1995 15:54:38 -0800 Received: from hp.com (hp.com [15.255.152.4]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA06382; Wed, 1 Feb 1995 15:54:35 -0800 Received: from hpautow.aus.hp.com by hp.com with SMTP (1.37.109.14/15.5+ECS 3.3) id AA167432870; Wed, 1 Feb 1995 15:54:30 -0800 Message-Id: <199502012354.AA167432870@hp.com> Received: by hpautow.aus.hp.com (1.38.193.4/16.2) id AA20232; Thu, 2 Feb 1995 10:53:22 +1100 From: "M.C Wong" Subject: Re: POS (was Re: sup: Ok, I'm gonna do it.) To: jkh@FreeBSD.org (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Thu, 02 Feb 1995 10:53:21 EDT Cc: hsu@freefall.cdrom.com, hackers@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: <17408.791632879@time.cdrom.com>; from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Feb 01, 95 2:01 am X-Mailer: Elm [revision: 109.14.c] Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > For databases, they could go Ingres or even spend some time beating on > postgres to make it something more of what they want. For a lot of > applications, however, even that's overkill and they could always just > use their own file format and B-trees or something. The DB package we > ship with isn't even that bad now, actually, and you could certainly > do something like a small sawmill's work-order database with it. > > Jordan > For databases, if you can convince Multisoft to do a port of FlagShip for *BSD, that will be great. They've got one for Linux, and are well received. VERSASOFT even has dBASE III+ compatible DBMS for Linux as well. Both have got demo and well, they look great! -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ M.C Wong Email: mcw@hpato.aus.hp.com Australian Telecom Operation Voice: +61 3 272 8058 Hewlett-Packard Australia Ltd Fax: +61 3 898 9257 31 Joseph St, Blackburn 3130, Australia OS: FreeBSD-1.1.5.1 http://hpautow.aus.hp.com:9999/~mcw/mcw.html (or http://hpautorf/~mcw)