Posted by ec on 11/09/06 13:25

There is also TurboDelphi which is a free version
of delphi .
You can use it as the dfront end .
Enjoy
ec

"Paul" <paul@see.my.sig.com> ???
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> "Alex S" <asluiter@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> My company uses a FoxPro database right now as an interface
>> and a database. For our situation, I have come to the conclusion that
>> it would be a better choice for us to move to an SQL server of some
>> sort.
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> There are several things that would help us provide an answer.
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> Volumes of data. Number of transactions per second/hour/day. Preferred
> operating system. Deficiencies of your present system - what are they?
> How do they impact on your business? How much RAM does your server
> have? Current server configuration. Do you have hardware plans also?
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> My own personal choice would be to invest in Dephi as the front end
> and then use Firebird and/or PostgreSQL as the backend. Both of these
> open source dbs will run on minimal hardware and a variety of
> operating systems and are very powerful and have paid support
> available if required, often by the very people who write the dbs in
> the first place.
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> There are any number of free development environments out there also.
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> Paul...
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>> Alex
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> plinehan __at__ yahoo __dot__ __com__
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> XP Pro, SP 2,
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> Oracle, 9.2.0.1.0 (Enterprise Ed.)
> Interbase 6.0.1.0;
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> When asking database related questions, please give other posters
> some clues, like operating system, version of db being used and DDL.
> The exact text and/or number of error messages is useful (!= "it didn't
> work!").
> Thanks.
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> Furthermore, as a courtesy to those who spend
> time analysing and attempting to help, please
> do not top post.

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