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by **Joe Eva** » Sat, 22 Jun 1996 04:00:00

I am looking for a database that fits the following criteria....

#1 Can be accessed by Web Browser software.
#2 Can be accessed over a wide area network, but be client server in nature
minimizing network traffic.
#3 Is cost effective.
#4 Will handle at least 200,000 records, and up to 50 concurrent users.
#5 Will work on an OS2/WARP Server or a Windows NT server platform.

Does anyone know of a product that could meet these criteria

by **Tom Vande-Stouw** » Sun, 23 Jun 1996 04:00:00

Most of them, but MS SQL 6.5 is defiantly a full fit. Check out
www.microsoft.com for a free trial copy. (Naturally, you would put a web
server in front of the server to access it via a Web Browser - Condition
#1)

We use SQL to handle all of our clients Database requirements, and even
have a server service that ONLY has SQL generated pages. No HTML pages
exist in the entire site. (Not even a default or index.html).

Tom
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> I am looking for a database that fits the following criteria....

> #1 Can be accessed by Web Browser software.
> #2 Can be accessed over a wide area network, but be client server in
nature
> minimizing network traffic.
> #3 Is cost effective.
> #4 Will handle at least 200,000 records, and up to 50 concurrent users.
> #5 Will work on an OS2/WARP Server or a Windows NT server platform.

> Does anyone know of a product that could meet these criteria

by **rwhu..** » Sun, 23 Jun 1996 04:00:00

>> I am looking for a database that fits the following criteria....

>> #1 Can be accessed by Web Browser software.
>> #2 Can be accessed over a wide area network, but be client server in
>nature
>> minimizing network traffic.
>> #3 Is cost effective.
>> #4 Will handle at least 200,000 records, and up to 50 concurrent users.
>> #5 Will work on an OS2/WARP Server or a Windows NT server platform.

>> Does anyone know of a product that could meet these criteria

How well does the relatively new Lotus Notes for the Internet stack up by
these criteria? Of course, Internet does not necessarily imply WWWeb, and given
the overhead in using graphics implied by the WWWeb, a really heavy duty
Internet enabled database should probably NOT be WWWeb in format.
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"I would predict that there are far greater mistakes waiting
to be made by someone with your obvious talent for it."
Orac to Vila. [City at the Edge of the World.]
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by **Seth Grim** » Mon, 24 Jun 1996 04:00:00

> How well does the relatively new Lotus Notes for the Internet stack up by
>these criteria? Of course, Internet does not necessarily imply WWWeb, and given
>the overhead in using graphics implied by the WWWeb, a really heavy duty
>Internet enabled database should probably NOT be WWWeb in format.

If you think graphics take too much bandwidth, don't use them on
your Web server. I think that a much more serious concern in putting DBs
on the Web is avoiding CGI. Is Notes' external DBMS interface similar to
CGI or is it more efficient?

Seth
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by **Oetting** » Tue, 25 Jun 1996 04:00:00

Quote:>I am looking for a database that fits the following criteria....

>#1 Can be accessed by Web Browser software.
>#2 Can be accessed over a wide area network, but be client server in
nature
>minimizing network traffic.
>#3 Is cost effective.
>#4 Will handle at least 200,000 records, and up to 50 concurrent users.
>#5 Will work on an OS2/WARP Server or a Windows NT server platform.

>Does anyone know of a product that could meet these criteria

Check Livelink Intranet, from Open Text corporation at
http://www.opentext.com.
Simone
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BeadNet
http://www.mcs.net/~simone/beadnet.html

by **THUNDERSTON** » Tue, 25 Jun 1996 04:00:00

You might want to take a look at Texis RDBMS at
http://www.thunderstone.com . It contains all the features you are
looking for, plus an extended Web API that includes HTML 3.0 file
parsing, persistent CGI variables and an automatic code generator.
Also, support is free. Hope this helps your evaluation.

Deirdre Jones
Thunderstone Software
http://www.thunderstone.com

by **John Clause** » Wed, 26 Jun 1996 04:00:00

Use SQL Server 6.5 and NT4.0 with Internet Information Server. IIS
provides the HTTPODBC.dll which makes creating IDC (Internet Database
Connector) files a snap. NT4 also contains dbWeb which is an excellent way
to create HTML on the fly. Nt4 will also have a search engine as well. You
can't go wrong mixing the MS line with the web and a RDBMS.

Quote:On Friday, June 21, 1996, Joe Evans wrote...
> I am looking for a database that fits the following criteria....

> #1 Can be accessed by Web Browser software.
> #2 Can be accessed over a wide area network, but be client server in
nature
> minimizing network traffic.
> #3 Is cost effective.
> #4 Will handle at least 200,000 records, and up to 50 concurrent users.
> #5 Will work on an OS2/WARP Server or a Windows NT server platform.

> Does anyone know of a product that could meet these criteria

by **Cynthia Merrit** » Wed, 26 Jun 1996 04:00:00

We've been using SQL Server 6.0, NT 4.0 and IIS and have had great
success...

Quote:On Monday, June 24, 1996, John Clausen wrote...
> Use SQL Server 6.5 and NT4.0 with Internet Information Server. IIS
> provides the HTTPODBC.dll which makes creating IDC (Internet Database
> Connector) files a snap. NT4 also contains dbWeb which is an excellent
way
> to create HTML on the fly. Nt4 will also have a search engine as well.
You
> can't go wrong mixing the MS line with the web and a RDBMS.

> On Friday, June 21, 1996, Joe Evans wrote...
> > I am looking for a database that fits the following criteria....

> > #1 Can be accessed by Web Browser software.
> > #2 Can be accessed over a wide area network, but be client server in
> nature
> > minimizing network traffic.
> > #3 Is cost effective.
> > #4 Will handle at least 200,000 records, and up to 50 concurrent
users.
> > #5 Will work on an OS2/WARP Server or a Windows NT server platform.

> > Does anyone know of a product that could meet these criteria

by **John Lun** » Wed, 26 Jun 1996 04:00:00

You might also try Allaire Cold Fusion (http://www.allaire.com/). I'm
biased, since I work for Allaire, but I believe it provides the best mix
of flexibility and ease-of-use with excellent support and pricing. We
have a wide range of customers and uses, and we offer a free evaluation
version.

Below is a link to a list of Web-database products. I don't know
anything about the person who maintains it, but there a lot of procucts
listed.

http://info.gdb.org/~letovsky/genera/dbgw.html

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by **Pascal Joli** » Sat, 29 Jun 1996 04:00:00

> >> I am looking for a database that fits the following criteria....

> >> #1 Can be accessed by Web Browser software.
> >> #2 Can be accessed over a wide area network, but be client server in
> >nature
> >> minimizing network traffic.
> >> #3 Is cost effective.
> >> #4 Will handle at least 200,000 records, and up to 50 concurrent users.
> >> #5 Will work on an OS2/WARP Server or a Windows NT server platform.

> >> Does anyone know of a product that could meet these criteria

> How well does the relatively new Lotus Notes for the Internet stack up by
> these criteria? Of course, Internet does not necessarily imply WWWeb, and given
> the overhead in using graphics implied by the WWWeb, a really heavy duty
> Internet enabled database should probably NOT be WWWeb in format.
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> "I would predict that there are far greater mistakes waiting
> to be made by someone with your obvious talent for it."
> Orac to Vila. [City at the Edge of the World.]
> -----------------------------------------------

As long as you don't need anything with a powerful database engine, yes Notes
will fit nicely. We use notes for some collaboration stuff here, and we also
have it publish web content for specific duties. But Notes lacks the real
efficiency of a relational database, where we use SQL 6.5. (which does a great
job at interfacing with Microsoft IIS, too.)

Pascal Jolin
TANDEM Network Business Center, Inc.

by **us022..** » Mon, 01 Jul 1996 04:00:00

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> You might also try Allaire Cold Fusion (http://www.allaire.com/). I'm
> biased, since I work for Allaire, but I believe it provides the best mix
> of flexibility and ease-of-use with excellent support and pricing. We
> have a wide range of customers and uses, and we offer a free evaluation
> version.

> Below is a link to a list of Web-database products. I don't know
> anything about the person who maintains it, but there a lot of procucts
> listed.

> http://info.gdb.org/~letovsky/genera/dbgw.html

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by **Matthew D. Hea** » Wed, 03 Jul 1996 04:00:00

1. I wrote the chapter on WWW/Database work in the book {Special
Edition Using CGI}; my chapter has pointers to many WWW sites
with useful information. Lead authors of the book are Jeffry
Dwight and Michael Erwin; publisher is QUE. It's been in
the better technical bookstores for a couple months now.

2. Jeff Rowe has recently written an _excellent_ book called
{Building Internet Database Servers With CGI}. Also his own
WWW site has scads of useful information, truly an excellent
resource. Near the bottom of my personal homepage is a link
to Jeff's stuff.

URLS:

Jeff's stuff:
http://cscsun1.larc.nasa.gov/~beowulf/db/existing_products.html

The QUE book (my chapter is # 13):
http://www.mcp.com/cgi-bin/bag?isbn=0-7897-0740-3&last=/bookstore

And my personal homepage is given in the sig block...

Hope this gives you some starting points!

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Any content-based regulation of the Internet, no matter how benign
the purpose, could burn the global village to roast the pig.

--Judge Dalzell in ACLU v. Reno, No. 96-963 (E.D. Pa.)