Databases ‐ the “black box” concept: creating applications without creating costs and problems

A survey conducted by Sysdeco, the software services company, indicates that many system developers are concerned about the costs and problems involved in building applications ‐ maintenance overheads, lifetime cost‐of‐ownership, unreliability. Developers need to build applications which are low cost and require a minimum of maintenance and tuning. Sysdeco’s MIMER relational database management system (RDBMS) is an ideal solution to such problems. For a database to work most effectively, performance should not decline with database updates or with other extra demands. The MIMER architecture is particularly well suited to demanding, large‐scale, mission‐critical environments because it is powerful, fast and ultra‐reliable. The database is invisible to the user, but at the same time it provides better times and extra utilization of a computer’s resources.