On Database Selection

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In regard to the question posed by Wang Jianqun (Jane Wang)
of Nanyang Technological University (s95005b56 at ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg), it seems of
fairly wide interest so I will respond to the list as well as to JW
specifically.  Her question was:

>We are developing an Internet-based Information System and >we need a
database management system. Since we have >installed SCO Unix and our  WEB
Server (CERN) on a PC, we >have not plenty of space to support very large
DBMS package, >such as Oracle. The basic requirement of our DBMS is 
>to support ANSI SQL. Does anybody can recommend some >databases available
for selection? 

I would look at mSQL, which is a freeware SQL-oriented database product.  I
believe you can find more information in one of the comp.this.that newsgroups
related to databases regarding the product.  Of the various freeware
databases, this one so far appears in evaluations done at my work to be
fairly interesting.  I am sorry not to be able to give you more of a specific
reference.

--David Ritchie
--Naperville, IL 
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