Hi Andrew,

You wrote to David Noon:

AG> DN> George White has given me the telephone number for Sybase/Watcom SQL
AG> DN> as a 60-day demo.

AG>an you post it please, I need to evaluate it too.

Posted in a respone in OS2DB (uploaded with this packet).
In the UK:- 0800 444455 (I have free access numbers for other European
countries as well, not to hand at present)

AG> AG> Have you seen the number for Oracle?

AG>YES ... I have a piece of blue paper on my desk saying
AG>"FREE Oracle on NT CD call 0990 168 605"

Aargh! One of those cheat, full long distance toll numbers that you
don't know the location of and always pay full charge even if it's
local :-(

AG>If it turns out to be a robot that doesn't understand the idea of
AG>OS/2, you might prefer the Oracle Business Centre on 01344 860 066.

Sounds a much more civilised number, at least you get any low cost route
LD tariffs which you don't with 0990 :-(



AG> AG>I am quite happy to go with an OS/2 server and use totally different
AG> AG>client system - but I really want the same client code to run in
AG> AG>all environments if possible.

AG> DN> Same source, but not same object code.

AG>Correct.

That sounds like you'd have to use something like the Zinc database
access package (Zinc Dataconnect), trouble is I only know it exists,
I've never used it. I'm not even sure if it supports OS/2. I _think_ I
have an evaluation copy here somewhere. Zinc Software (UK) Ltd are on
+44 (0)181 855 9918, they will be able to supply information and an
evaluation package if one exists.

George

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