I need advice on choosing a free version of a "Pick Operating System"
DBMS for a personal project on a home computer.

The software needs to only accomodate one user. So the different free
versions would seem to be OK.

I am trying to decide which one of the different potential candidate
packages would best suit my needs.

I have written Data-Basic on a Microdata Reality. (I wish I was that
young again.)

I have several home computers which I might choose to write and compile
code on. I have a 2001 vintage P4, 1.5 Ghz. 756 RAM for which I have
Windows 98 SE and whatever Linux I can scrounge up. (Right now that is
Puppy Linux.) I am working on getting Open SUSE and maybe White Box
Linux (A free version of Red Hat 4..). I also have 300 Mghz Celeron,
160 MB of RAM. A 400 Mghz Pentium MMX, 160 MB RAM with a faster
graphics card.

I can not afford to purchase Windows XP.

I have looked at packages like Maverick, Jbase, OpenQM. I have not
yet gotten any of these packages to install yet. I notice Maverick
requires other components besides JAVA. If you recommend Maverick.
Please recommend which Compiler and DBMS to go with it? I have only a
little experience with Linux and so installing anything is a trial.

I had thought I could use one of the slower machines to write and
compile code on. I am not sure that any of my computers can happily
carry the weight of a heavier Linux and a compiler.

I thought I would ask someone who has experience before I spend hours
trying to install a one of the versions of Pick OS and learn it.

Thank you for whatever advice you can give.

OpenQM really impressed me. I started out in MV on a Microdata Reality system and got around to learning parts and parcels of a few flavors.

OpenQM has a very small footprint and some great advantages. No matter what version of MV you decide on you are in for a tad of re-learning, the model has changed significantly in every flavor i've seen from the old microdata systems and of course you will have to study a bit about the spooler and do without procs in OpenQM, but there are many ways to skin a cat.

Whatever you 'pick', good luck!


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"purple_ghost" <purple_ghost (AT) utahweb (DOT) com> wrote

On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 04:32:44 GMT, "Concerned_Netizen"
<Concerned_netizen (AT) WhydontIgetspamanymore (DOT) net> wrote:

Errrrr... Not true any more, more's the pity.... But you might want to
get away from them anyway..... and yes, OpenQM is supported on
W95/98.... even if W95/98 is no longer supported....

Regards,

Bruce Nichol
Talon Computer Services
ALBURY NSW Australia

http://www.taloncs.com.au

If it ain't broke, fix it until it is....

Bruce Nichol wrote:
To be strictly correct, our support for Windows 95 is about to cease at
release 2.4-11. We believe that QM will still run but we will no longer
test it. Also, and this is the reason for dropping support, we are
reworking the online help to take advantage of the features of the
newer compiled HTML (chm) format which is not available on Windows 95.

Windows 98 users should not panic that they might soon find themselves
without support. We have many users on Windows 98 (yes, really!) and
have no intention of withdrawing support.

QM 2.4-11 should be out in the next few days.


Martin Phillips, Ladybridge Systems.

HI
There is always Reality which is closest to what you know from Northgate,
very big in the UK where OpenQM comes from. Personally I use D3 but there
are no freebies there as far as I know you would need to check with a
Raining Data var.
Peter McMurray
"purple_ghost" <purple_ghost (AT) utahweb (DOT) com> wrote