Re: Btrieve to Oracle Migration -- Any Interest?

Well, re-write is not always viavle , specially if you have large applications already deployed at 100s of sites. Granted that rewriting has definite advantages (and significant costs!), but if a tool is able to read your table structure, understand your index definition and generate an optimize SQL statement for you, it should have appeal to a lot of companies. Specially if we can prove that performance is still great.

regards,

Riaz Merchant / riazm_at_mertechdata.com
www.mertechdata.com

"Ted Knijff" <knijff_at_bigfoot.com> wrote in message news:3a9ead86.820339_at_news.online.de...
> Hi,
> we had some applications a long, long time ago with
> Btrieve/Novell-XSQL/Pervasive (the 80's ?). We ported some of the Data
> to Oracle. The problem is, your code was written to use Btrieve but
> Oracle is a whole new ballpark (Records versus Result-Sets). My advice
> for what it's worth, rewrite it.
>
> Ted
>
> On Thu, 1 Mar 2001 01:10:26 -0500, "RMerchant"
> <shirleymerchant_at_mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> >Our company has developed database drivers and migration tools that
 allow
> >programs written for ISAM databases to work with Oracle backend without
> >changing any source code. The migration tool converts ISAM databases to
> >Oracle and the middleware passes all database operations to Oracle. Our
> >company has had great success with moving DataFlex databases to Oracle.
 The
> >great thing about this technology is that even with ISAM interface we are
> >able to get same or better performance out of Oracle.
> >
> >The question is, are there companies out there, specially developers, who
> >want to run their applications written with Btrieve (Pervasive) API to
> >work with Oracle? Essentially, this allows developers to offer a
 flexible
> >solution ( Btrieve for smaller sites and Oracle for large sites) without
> >requiring to re-engineer their entire application.
> >
> >Any thoughts, interest? Please send mail to riazm_at_mertechdata.com.
> >
> >regards,
> >Riaz Merchant
> >www.mertechdata.com
> >High Performance Database Drivers for Oracle
> >
> >
>
> EMail: knijff_at_bigfoot.com
Received on Thu Mar 01 2001 - 21:24:49 CST