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From: barr@frog.UUCP (Chris Barr)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Accounting/Finance/Business-operations-database system needed
Summary: For PCs: SmartWare
Message-ID: <1529@frog.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jun 89 20:55:00 GMT
Expires: 3 Jul 89 04:00
References: <9236@xanth.cs.odu.edu> <1458@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> <4680@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
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Organization: Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA
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In article <4680@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> ccjoan@castor.ucdavis.edu (Joan Gargano) writes:
>In article <1458@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> mbb@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (martin.b.brilliant) writes:
>>From article <9236@xanth.cs.odu.edu>, by aiko@cs.odu.edu (John K Hayes):
>>> Hello.  I have been asked to find out what is available off the shelf in
>>> the way of business accounting/finance/database systems for use in a
>>> company of about 100-300 people.  It will be implemented probably on a
>>> PC.


A couple of years ago at a startup company we wrote our own in short 
order useing 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 
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.