Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > yes, it's open enough ; it would still work ok in a network environment > if they front end it witha network tcp server taking the sql requests > from a tcp port and then accessing the databaseon behalf of the network > user; the network server could even manage the concurrency with file > levelor even row level locking ; it is quite remarkable how even a > "primitive" flat file system works sowell after 5 years of data , just > because it shares basically the same algorithm for search which isto use > index files , which are either sorted and binary searched, or > arranged as hash buckets,or btrees , and the algorithm technology stayed > the same for the last 20 years ( and isn't likely going to change > either). http://www.clicketyclick.dk/databases/xbase/format/ > > > On Wed May 24 22:14 , Mario Ruiz sent: > > It appears that my use of the word "open" is causing some reactions. My > > use of "open", was meant as in a "flat file system" context where the > > access to the data is open and does not requires user or application > > credentials to access the data file to manipulate or apply any > > transformation to the data. > > > > Agree Richard, M$ likes to keep it all wrapped. > > > > mario > > > > > > Richard Hosking wrote: > > > Foxpro is hardly "open" > > > It was bought by M$ presumably to reduce competition - it seems to be > > > their "middle" tier DB platform/language, looking at their website > > > MSS "Classic" uses it (what we have in the practice) > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Gpcg_talk mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk > > > >
-- Jon Patrick Chair of Language Technology School of Information Technologies University of Sydney Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
