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From: saify@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (saify.lanewala)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: PC database
Summary: PC Databases -- Emerald Bay
Message-ID: <2235@cbnewsl.ATT.COM>
Date: 12 Oct 89 13:40:34 GMT
References: <1205@orbit.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <1205@orbit.UUCP>, biggity@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Jon Johnston) writes:
> 
>     I would like to continue it. I do a great deal of work on networks, mostly
> Novell, and am quite interested in what people are oding about database 
> development across the LAN.
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>       ANd if you can, more about Emerald Bay, I've heard good things about it.
> 


I have used Emerald Bay's database engine.  It's written by Wayne Ratliff,
and was being marketed by Migent.  Migent had some financial difficulties,
and wound up selling (?) off the marketing rights to a Canadian company
(Lanware ??).

Anyway, when I first bought the package for a client of mine, I was quite
excited.  It seemed to have most of the features my client wanted.  A couple
of things that were not in, like partial key matches, phonetic matching, etc.
were promised.  With the change in rights and all, I have not heard from
them.

At this point in time, I have stopped using the package, not because I
don't like it, but because I'm not comfortable with their survivability.
Most of their emphasis seems to be on Eagle, their dBASE answer, while
my focus is on their C Applications Development Library.

In a nutshell, I like their product idea, would like to see them do well,
but I could not justify using their product for a client application
unless I see some movement from their side.  As far as I can tell, no
C library enhancements have been announced.

Hope that helps muddy things up a bit more than before (;-)


Saify Lanewala
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