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Article:
  Installing Oracle 9i on Mac OS X, Part 2
Subject:   Why would you bother, with FrontBase available?
Date:   2002-11-21 22:12:19
From:   anonymous2
Why would you bother with either Oracle on Mac OS X, or one of the just-as-obtuse Open Source database solutions on Mac OS X, when FrontBase <http://www.frontbase.com/> is available very inexpensively and with competitive features?


FrontBase has been around since the Mac OS X Server 1.0 days. It's feature-competitive with the Big Name Databases like Oracle and Sybase at a very reasonable price, especially compared to what Macintosh solution providers are used to. (There's even a free low-end deployment license!) It integrates very, very well with WebObjects and with Cocoa and AppleScript Studio application development. It's the only *fully* SQL92-compliant database (that I know of) on the market. It has a great, simple, graphical administration application.


And the download is under *six megabytes*.


What would possess you to want something else, other than some sort of corporate policy or the (deeply mistaken) desire to run Java code within your database?