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From: barr@frog.UUCP (Chris Barr)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Database for IBM PC (adaptable to mailorder business)?
Summary: SmartwWare, nursery software
Keywords: SmartWare, nursery software
Message-ID: <17598@frog.UUCP>
Date: 9 Aug 90 19:24:00 GMT
References: <1990Aug1.053314.1946@cbnewsi.att.com> <6362@tekgen.BV.TEK.COM>
Distribution: usa
Organization: Charles River Data Systems
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In article <6362@tekgen.BV.TEK.COM>, ralphc@tekcae.CAX.TEK.COM (Ralph Carpenter) writes:
> In article <1990Aug1.053314.1946@cbnewsi.att.com> rw@cbnewsi.att.com (robert.h.wentworth) writes:
> >An uncle of mine runs a small mail-order plant
> >nursery.  He needs software to (1) handle mailing lists....
> > (text deleted)
> >My uncle tells me that he's seen ads for commercial systems aimed at
> >mail-order businesses that go for $30k (far out of proportion to the
> 
> Paradox3 has received *very* good reviews from all the magazines I've seen so
> far.  On top of that, the cost of the Paradox3 runtime package is only $29.95
> step.  At the same time that this is going on, Egghead will have sold many
> copies of the very same materiel for $495 to customers who are avoiding the
> $725 retail price.
> 
> The August 1990 issue of the Data Based Advisor, pp 82-87, features a case 
> study of how Paradox was used to develop an application specifically for
> the nursery market.  It is an interesting article, and the author seems to

A plant nursery owner friend developed a wonderful application a few years
ago, which he continues to enhance for his use, after trying to sell to 
a limited market.  (I'd be happy to direct potential s.w. customers his way.)  

He develops using SmartWare, now merged into Informix, and is very 
enthusiastic about it, especially the newest release.  

Smartware regularly receives high marks in reviews of 'integrated software'
for MSDOS.  It also runs under Unix.  The database & spreadsheet modules
also regularly receive high marks when reviewed as standalones.

Chris Barr
Charles River Data Systems
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