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From: wwanders@sci.kun.nl (William Wanders)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Commercial SQL for FreeBsd?
Date: 22 Jul 1995 12:54:24 GMT
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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In <3uplpq$t7f@i-2000.com> reyes01@ibm.net writes:

>I have been looking at the FreeBsd WEB site and I have been looking
>to see what commercial applications are supported and I could not
>find much. The only thing I found was a file called commerce.tgz. After
>downloading that file it didn't seem to have much information either.

>I am interested in finding out if any commercial SQL database runs in 
>FreeBsd before ordering it from Walnut Creek. I looked at a document
>with information about Msql? (Mini SQL) and it did not seem  that it would
>do what we need.


Take a look at Postgres95! It is not a commercial SQL but
it has the same roots as commercial version of Postgres.
Info can be found at

        http://s2k-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu:8000/postgres95/

Beta 0.03 compiles on FreeBSD almost out of the box. If you have
any question mail me and i'll see if i can help.

William Wanders (wwanders@sci.kun.nl)