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Anthony Harris (tony@ntech.com)
Sun, 8 Sep 1996 14:35:36 -0500 (CDT) 

From: Anthony Harris <tony@ntech.com>
Message-Id: <199609081935.OAA24917@reliant.ntech.com>
Subject: Re: [mSQL] Empress SQL vs. mSQL (1.x - 2.x)
Date: Sun, 8 Sep 1996 14:35:36 -0500 (CDT)

Sorry I didn't have the original message to reply to so, if this ends up
with a person instead of the list, I'm sorry. . .

I'd seriously think about what you want to do. Empress starts at about
$800 or so, and only allows 5 simultaneous (sp?) connections or something
small like that. They sell a "web developers" one which (as I recall)
is around $950 or $999, (unfortunately I no longer have the pricing specs
they had sent me)

So, for those considering Empress, I hope you have some serious money behind
you in the long haul (especially if you want 20, 30, 50, 100 or more
simultaneous connections)

-Tony

>
> Jon Lei wrote:
> >
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > In fear of mSQL 2.0 not being revealed for a long time, I've started
> > looking around for other Linux SQL engines. I came upon a product
> > called Empress RDBMS (http://www.empress.com). It supports quite a
> > number of special types that mSQL lacks (ie, dates, currency, binary etc..)
> > It has Perl, C, and C++ APIs. Looks like a pretty good package.
> > I'm wonder if anyone has any experience with it. I couldn't find
> > prices for it so I don't know if it's even affordable but it seems
> > to do what mSQL 2.0 is going to do.
> >
> > Any comments or opinions would be appreciated
>
> I think that you may be making a jump too soon. Try integrating PHP/FI
> into your setup. It will allow just about everything you want, and if
> not, you can pretty easily write a function to do it.
>
> PHP/FI info at:
>
> http://www.vex.net/php
>
> Hans
>
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