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From: aland@infmx.UUCP (Dr. Scump)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Accounting/Finance/Business-operations-database system needed
Summary: Smartware II now shipping
Message-ID: <1606@infmx.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jun 89 03:19:29 GMT
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Reply-To: aland@infmx.UUCP (alan denney)
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In article <1529@frog.UUCP> barr@frog.UUCP (Chris Barr) writes:
>
>A couple of years ago at a startup company we wrote our own in short 
>order using Smart, before discovering several commercial products were 
>available to run on top of the SmartWare system: rdbms + spreadsheet + 
>w.p., comms, calendar.  They're in Hutchinson, KS, merged with Informix a 
                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
(actually Lenexa, KS, in the "heart of the Silicon Prairie")

>year or so ago, frequently rated tops among integrated s.w. packages 
>(especially in West, Midwest).  Joining among multiple spreadsheets,
>speed, database the strongest module rates very well against DBase/Foxbase,
>and a new, revamped user interface version came out some months ago.

The new version, SmartWare II, began shipping this month.

--
    Alan S. Denney  @  Informix Software, Inc.    
         {pyramid|uunet}!infmx!aland                 "I want to live!
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