Unify Database Problems, and a few others!

[Oleg Kiselev x268]

> > ...how can someone buy a DBMS without testing it first.
> 
> Easy.  UNIFY wouldn't let us test it first.  They sold us the manuals
> ahead of time and according to those, UNIFY looked pretty good.  I hear
> they will give you demos but these don't show the full functionality of
> the system (the C interface anyway which is what we primarily use).
> -- 
I guess you missed the line on their ads 
	"...Most people who review our manuals buy UNIFY database..."
We got hooked the same way, but had no MAJOR disasters, just a lot of
small ones... And believe me, UNIFY is MUCH better than Software Express' AppGen
at which I had to become an expert because nobody else wanted to mess with it.
The Software Express bill themselves as the "Cure for common code"! That is 
you don't need to be a programmer to use it and write in it! A bunch of crap!
The database Application Generator had problems doing things more complecated
than "2+2" and even for that I had to write a rather messy and unreadable "code"

After a month of struggle I just resorted to C... And found that AppGen has a C
support on the level standard Berkley dbm(3). Which is great stuff when it's
for free and with the source, and VERY poor for a commercial product distributed
in object code form. Figuring out what 4 Mbytes of assembly language do is NOT
my idea of fun!
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