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IMPLEMENTATION OF AN OPEN SYSTEMS APPLICATION ENVIRONMENTRDBMS COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

BACKGROUND AND OVERVIEW

The Defense Finance and Accounting Services Financial Systems Organization (DFAS) plans to establish a standard development and operational environment for DFAS applications running on workstations, network servers, and mid-tier platforms. To accomplish this, the Government has commissioned a study to 1) evaluate currently used development environments and industry standards and 2) perform an analysis of these alternative development environment; identifying the most effective solutions for DFAS.

A key component of this planned Open Systems Application Environment (OSAE) is a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) that will allow portability and salability across multiple platforms. This report provides a comparative analysis of three leading RDBMSs including Oracle, DB2, and SYBASE System 10. In addition, it contains recommendations for RDBMS standardization within DFAS.


OPEN SYSTEMS APPLICATION ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS

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