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Path: digifix!not-for-mail From: gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl (Gerben Wierda) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.announce Subject: PRESS RELEASE: R&A ships POSTGRES 4.1 for NEXTSTEP Date: 16 Sep 1993 16:02:15 -0400 Organization: Next Announcements Lines: 59 Sender: sanguish@digifix.com Approved: sanguish@digifix.com Message-ID: <27ago7$of6@digifix.digifix.com> Reply-To: gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl R&A SHIPS University POSTGRES v4.1 R&A has ported the University POSTGRES database system (a fully object-oriented database from the group that spawned INGRES) to NEXTSTEP 3.x. POSTGRES is a research effort into the realm of future database systems. It has time-travel, abstract data types (objects!) and so on. The POSTGRES sources are available from the university of California at Berkeley for free. But porting is not trivial and has taken quite some time. This has to do with dependencies in the POSTGRES code on several both interface and implementation of the native OS it runs on. We share our code changes with the POSTGRES group at Berkeley so with future releases of POSTGRES and future releases of NEXTSTEP porting will become less an issue. People that want it now, can either port themselves, or buy our package. POSTGRES is not a stable, commercial environment (even if it is used as such here and there) but its key aspects make it popular in research and other advanced environments. We sell binary installer packages for POSTGRES on NEXTSTEP 3.x for both i386 and m68k architecture. The price is low (since we sell only the porting effort and not POSTGRES itself): $175 1 CPU 1 architecture $275 >1 CPU 1 architecture (site license) We have ported everything of the 4.1 release, including the dynamic loader. POSTGRES comes on a set of two floppies, one with the postgres programs, initial data and one with the documentation and the library. The library is MAB, so you can compile on another architecture and connect to the server on your architecture of choice. MAB on request (we do not offer MAB standard because of the limitations in NEXTSTEP installer packages with respect to multiple floppies). For sites that need source control: we offer source licenses for our System V shared memory and semaphore software. For more information you can mail to gerben@rna.indiv.nluug.nl or call/fax to +31 70 3230851. Due to ongoing reconstruction activities, this fax is operational on weekdays only from 9.00 CDT until 21.00 CDT. That is approximately from 3:00 EDT until 15:00 EDT and 0:00 PDT until 12:00 PDT. You can also write to: R&A Goudreinetstraat 582 2564 PX Den Haag The Netherlands We prefer e-mail. NeXTmail welcome. R&A is a small firm specialized in quality software design and implementation and consultancy. We are specialized in OO, Unix and NEXTSTEP. All trademarks belong to their owners.
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