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Enterprise Systems Journal, September, 1999 by Rampel, Paul
The Distributed Relational Database Architecture (DRDA) protocol, which the Open Group has proposed as a database access interoperability standard, is discussed. DRDA is designed to let users link various database systems quickly and easily, without having to implement multiple gateways.
Not long ago, if users wanted to exchange data in different databases, they had to use a convoluted mix of propriety gateways, host software and non-standard programming interfaces. Customers longed for true database access interoperability. They wanted a simple, consistent way to obtain and manipulate data from multiple vendors' DBMSs. They wanted to look at the best application software regardless of proprietary hardware solutions. And they wanted to eliminate the cost associated...
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