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From: markj@informix.com (Mark Jeske(Chicago Consultan)t)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Need recommendation for relational databases
Message-ID: <1990Oct17.161605.9608@informix.com>
Date: 17 Oct 90 16:16:05 GMT
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In article <1990Oct16.214306.9900@agate.berkeley.edu> bmug@garnet.berkeley.edu (BMUG) writes:
>In article <16827@thorin.cs.unc.edu> murphy@excalibur.cs.unc.edu (Ransom Murphy) writes:
>>
>>I am working on a project to combine serveral large widely used
>>databases into a centralized database that will be accessable to
>>a large number of people.  Idealy I would like to have my
>>database set up on a Unix system.  We use Ultrix, Sun OS, and 
>>BSD Unix, not VMS.  I want to keep the database on the unix system 
>>and have a Macintosh front end with possibly a hypercard interface
>>or something similar to hypercard.  I need some product 
>>recommendations and some advice from anyone experienced with this
>>type of thing.
>>
>
>Well, with Macintosh front ends you have a few choices:
>

You might also want to look into our Wingz spreadsheet that can use
Wingz Datalink to access information in a database on a unix host.
Wingz has a built in hyperscript programming language that is very
powerfull.

Mark Jeske (Informix consulting)
markj@infmx.com