Re: RDBMS for DOS and Windows
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>Joel, some people do not have money, and cannot get it. Period.
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>Rather than belittling him and his equipment, could you offer a networked
>way to get more performance out of what little he has, by spreading the job
>around some?
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>Kat,
>thinking maybe spreading the DB out and telling all the puters to help
>search it *might* help some. Not counting an indexing scheme...
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>> Well said, sir.
>> With 32meg Pentium boxes going for $200~$300, this client is foolish
_not_
>>to
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>And if he doesn't have a $30K job in the USA, but instead is in Bolivia
>making $1K per year?
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>Kat
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Hi everyone,
Thank you very much for giving much attention to my concern. Specially to
your comments and recommendation. It was very enlightening.
Let be just formally introduce myself. I 'm Carlos L. Codina, Jr. 33 years
old from Talisay, Cebu, Philippines. My friends call me ARLIE. I been
writing custom programs for small companies here in the Philippines since
1984. But I'm still a small time programmer. Just to give you an idea of
how much it would cost to buy a new unit -- a $1 is equal to P40 pesos here
in our country. The basic salary/pay here is $125 a month that's around
$1500 per annum. A branded computer like Dell, IBM, etc. would cost us more
or less $1500 while an unbranded one would be around $750 for the same
configuration.
Of course I'm not saying that our country is that left behind. In fact for
those who can afford specially big corporations are upgrading all their
units to Pentium III-600mhz. In fact many of your computer components are
made in the Philippines.
There are still of considerable number of small businesses that can only
afford to buy a used 486 at $125 per unit.Aside from maintaining my legacy
applications I'm also targetting this small businesses because I can still
make money making applications. Also we still have museums here that sells
spare parts for this type of boxes.
Moreover, my main reason for chosing euphoria as my new software
development platform because it still supports plain old DOS programming.
Of course I have a handfull of programs deployed written in Visual dBASE 7
since 1995. I'm just starting out with euphoria hoping that sometime I can
use it for serious application development.
Please keep the comments coming. I like to hear more from everyone.
Regards,
Arlie
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