[log in to unmask],Net writes:
>In-Reply-To: <01BD9BD9.5A3E6910@XPUPPY>
>what was the original company? - exeter systems?
>confused of ealing
Micronetics and presumably InterSystems were the two providers of
MUMPS/M language RDBMS.
EMIS and the Exeter GP System both use Micronetics MUMPS.
THere doesn't seem to be anything particular about the MUMPS code,
except that unlike SQL Server; InterBase; DB2; Clipper and so on it
prevents you using your server for anything else, no doubt a strong
selling point to developers of solutions in captive markets.
The current provision of I think ODBC links to allow ordinary programs
to use data from MUMPS databases will loosen the dependence, indeed,
there seems no reason why the table structure in the database should
not be entirely independent of the particular server RDBSA which is
holding and maintaining it, which the more innovative suppliers have
achieved with their use of InterBase on Unix and NT/95
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