I'm a little out of my depth here, so I hope folks will bear with
me...

Can someone tell me what are the leading solutions for an organization
that has a bunch of legacy databases (some or most of them relational
dbs) that are incompatible? Are there any solutions that are
generally regarded as at least "fairly satisfactory", if not "fairly
good"?

Anyone responding, I'd greatly appreciate it if you could send a copy
of your response to me at practicalinfo (AT) earthlink (DOT) net. Thanks.

"Howard Karten" <practicalinfo (AT) earthlink (DOT) net> wrote


There are mainstream commercial RDBMS (relational database
management systems) vendors, the primary 3 in no specific order
being IBM (DB2), Oracle (Oracle) and SQL Server (Microsoft).

Cannot speak for the 2 former vendors, as my experience is with
SQL. However I'd be surprised if solutions are not immediately
obtainable on either of the 3 platforms.

For a brief review on what is under the hood of a modern RDBMS
have a look through this article - "A Brief History of IT Management
and the RDBMS" .....
http://www.mountainman.com.au/software/history/


Good luck.



Farmer Brown
Falls Creek.
OZ
http://www.mountainman.com.au/software