Re: Comments needed on Computer Aides
From: Chen-Song Qin <cqin@e...>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 14:24:29 -0400
Subject: Re: Comments needed on Computer Aides
On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Joachim Heck - SunSoft wrote:
> $1200 dollars is indeed a lot of money. I think it extremely
> unlikely that a industrial-strength database is required for this
> task. If the database is not used the tools required to develop this
> product are FREE. Java is free. Visual Basic is virtually(?) free.
> GCC is free. There's no need to spend a huge amount of money on a
> development system given the nature of the task at hand.
Visual Basic can do database too. It's compatible with Access, FoxPro,
and
can read files from dBase and Paradox.