From: jdr@starflight.Corp.Sun.COM (Jon Roland)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Need info on UNIX relational databases
Date: 7 Sep 1992 22:45:38 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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Reply-To: jdr@starflight.Corp.Sun.COM
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Okay, here is a partial list. For your purposes I would particularly recommend
Progress.

The format is name, address, phone, product name, and comment. Please
provide any additions or corrections.
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Abacus Software Limited
13 Pall Mall
London, SW1Y 5LU England
(44) 71 839 7445
UniVISION
Page-based db, for videotext or bulletin boards

Ally Software Inc
PO Box 500
Blue Bell, PA 19424-0001 USA
215/986-2249
Ally
Supports SQL and AT&T's Tuxedo

Altair
BP 105
Le Chesnay, Cedex, 78153 France
(33) 1 39 63 54 17
O2
OODB, oriented toward engineering apps

BKS-Software Entwicklungs GmbH
(49) 30 342 30 66-67
POET
OODBMS

Cetonia
(33) 1 42 84 09 53
B.Browser
Network DBMS for textual data

Cincom Systems Inc
2300 Montana Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45211 USA
513/662-2300
SUPRA
SQL-based RDBMS

Concept asa Software & Consulting GmbH
Gluckstr. 18
Frankfurt/Main, D-6000-1 Germany
(49) 69 597 0297/8
db++
Non-SQL, fairly pure implementation of relational algebra

Empress Software Inc
3100 Steeles Avenue E #300
Markham, ON L3R 8T3 Canada
416/513-8888
SQL-based RDBMS, supports BLOBs

Infoflex Inc
840 Hinckley #247
Burlingame, CA 94010 USA
415/340-0220
Infoflex
Package of SQL-oriented development tools

Information Builders Inc
1250 Broadway
New York, NY 1001 USA
212/736-4433
FOCUS
RDBMS/4GL, non-SQL

Informix Software Inc
4100 Bohannon Drive
Menlo Park, CA 94025 USA
415/926-6300
Informix
SQL-based RDBMS

Infosys
15 Rue Anatole France
Puteaux, 92800 France
(33) 1 47 78 85 35
SABRINA
Package of SQL-oriented development tools

Infosystems Technology Inc
6303 Ivy Lane
Greenbelt, MD 20770
301/345-7800
Rubix
RDBMS whose 4GL is extension of C, with compatible interpretive 4GL

Ingres Corporation
1080 Marina Village Parkway
Alameda, CA 94501 USA
510/769-1400
Ingres Relational DBMS
SQL-based RDBMS

Interbase Software Corporation
209 Burlington Road
Bedford, MA 01730 USA
617/275-3222
InterBase
RDBMS that supports variety of front ends, including non-SQL types

InterSystems Corporation
1 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02142 USA
617/621-0600
M/SQL
SQL-based RDBMS that interfaces well with MUMPS

Itasca Systems Inc
2850 Metro Drive #300
Minneapolis, MN 55425 USA
612/851-3155
ITASCA
OODBMS, based on MCC's ORION OOBDBMS

Leading Technology
11 Grosvenor Place
London, SW1X 7HH England
(44) 71 235 5498
TekBase
Scientific RDBMS

Macquarie University
Computing Discipline
New South Wales, 2109 Australia
(61) 2 805 8932
General Attribute Data Base Management System
For string and array data of arbitrary size, oriented for scientific apps

Micro Data Base Systems Inc
PO Box 5268
Lafayette, IN 47903 USA
317/447-1122
MDBS III
Network DBMS, for apps involving complex data relationships

MINEsoft Ltd
165 S Union Blvd #510
Lakewood, CO 80228-2215 USA
303/980-5300
TECHBASE
Engineering and scientific DBMS

MSE Inc
1200 Main St
Irvine, CA 92714
714/250-1718
Magic
DBMS with easy-to-use visual/graphical development environment

Object Design Inc
1 New England Executive Park
Burlington, MA 01803 USA
617/270-9797
ObjectStore
OODBMS

Objectivity Inc
800 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025 USA
415/688-8000
Objectivity/DB
OODBMS

Ontologic Inc
3 Burlington Woods #300
Burlington, MA 01803 USA
617/272-7110
ONTOS
OODBMS

Oracle Corporation
500 Oracle Parkway MD 40P-690
Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA
415/506-7000
Oracle
SQL-based RDBMS

Progress Software Corporation
5 Oak Park
Bedford, MA 01730 USA
617/275-4500
Progress
Advanced RDBMS/4GL, supports SQL but not based on it

Raima Corporation
3245 146th Place SE #230
Bellevue, WA 98007-6481 USA
206/747-5570
Raima Data Manager
Network DBMS

Recital Corporation
85 Constitution Lane
Danvers, MA 01923
508/750-1066
Recital
RDBMS with visual development environment, xBase-compatible

Revelation Technologies
Two Park Avenue
New York, NY 10016
800/262-4747
Advanced Revelation
Client-server DBMS

RIM Technology
320 Paseode Peralta
Santa Fe, NM 87501 USA
505/983-2214
RTIRIM
Engineering and scientific RDBMS

RSW Inc
131 Rathburn Way
Santa Cruz, CA 95062 USA
408/429-6229
/rdb
Extension of UNIX shell environment, RDBMS/4GL

SAS Institute Inc
PO Box 8000
Cary, NC 27512-8000 USA
919/677-8000
SAS Applications System
Free-form DBMS

Servio Corporation
1420 Harbor Bay Pkwy
Alameda, CA 94501 USA
510/748-6200
Gemstone
OODBMS

Sterling Software/Zanthe Systems Div
36 Antares Drive #500
Ottawa, ON K2E 7W5 Canada
613/727-1397
ZIM
Advanced implementation of Entity-Relationship model, non-SQL

Stone Design
505/345-4800
DataPhile
Multimedia DBMS

Sybase Inc
6475 Christie Avenue
Emeryville, CA 94608 USA
510/596-3500
Sybase
Extended SQL RDBMS

System Simulation Ltd
250 Bedford Chambers
Covent Garden
London, WC2E 8HA England
(44) 71 836 7406
INDEX+
Free-form DBMS

Teledia, SA
(33) 20 67 59 58
FileMaster
Flexible-structure DBMS

Unify Corporation
3901 Lennane
Sacramento, CA 95834 USA
916/920-9092
UNIFY RDBMS
SQL-based RDBMS

Versant Object Technology
4500 Bohannon Drive #200
Menlo Park, CA 94025 USA
415/325-2300
VERSANT
OODBMS

Versasoft Corporation
4340 Almaden Expy #110
San Jose, CA 95118 USA
408/723-9044
dBMAN
xBase RDBMS


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And the DB consultant:

jdr@starflight.corp.sun.com, starflt@uunet.uu.net
Jon Roland
Starflight Corporation, 1755 E Bayshore Rd #9A,
Redwood City, CA 94063-4142, 415/361-8141


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