Re: question :)

Otis G. writes: 

> I was wondering if there are any other relatively cheap or even better, free
> software packages that would be able to handle such big databases and lots of
> simultaneous users and run on UNIX.

There are other ones, but the one we use is /rdb from Revolutionary 
Software.  See: 

http://theodore-sturgeon.MIT.EDU:8001/uu-gna/schools/vslis/rdb/

> We are looking for something that supports:
> 
> - authentication

Let your Web server do that. 

> - client/server

A CGI app is *always* "client/server" ...

> - _fast_ queries

/rdb supports hash or inverted indexing, and can be combined with 
agrep and glimpse for fast text searches.  

> - ability to update/delete/add entries on-the-fly, so to speak, by talking to
>   the server.

This is done through CGI programming ....

> - popular and supported query language such as SQL

The popular and supported "query" language /rdb supports is Unix ;-) 
... the shell is your 4GL!  (Or Perl, awk, gawk, [your favorite high-level 
language here]).  

> - preferably made for using via WWW...

It's a natural.  

Good luck! 

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