Looking for a database

[Uno Engborg]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 30 January 2006 13:07, CodeHeads wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:47:40 +0000
>>
>> Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> On 1/30/06, bobgoodwin <bobgoodwin at att.net> wrote:
>>>       
>>>>>>> As desktop databases for Linux, I guess one can only find
>>>>>>> OpenOffice Base and Kexi, is not it?
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> Rekall is in Fedora Extras
>>>>>> http://www.rekallrevealed.org/
>>>>>>             
>> That sounds and looks interesting. Has anyone installed and tried
>> rekall??  Just curious.
>>
>>     
> There is also announcement by IBM earlier today that DB2 was being 
> free'ed in a smaller scale version that won't tun on huge SMP machines 
> as its only limitation.
>
> I'm not a DB guru, but shouldn't that be at least looked at?
>   
I havn't got any info on this yet, but I would suspect that it is supposed
to run on Red Hat Enterprise edition. Even though it may run on Fedora 
as well, chosing some
free database that is well tested on that platform is probably a better 
option.

Regards
Uno Engborg