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From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: sub.databases,comp.databases
Subject: Re: 4GL's : INGRES Windows 4GL
Keywords: INGRES
Message-ID: <1990Nov16.204629.12068@erbe.se>
Date: 16 Nov 90 20:46:29 GMT
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In a recent article, tore@ifi.uio.no (Tore Solvar Karlsen) writes about
Ingres/Windows 4GL:

>Yes. It looks good, but I've only seen it demonstrated on SUN-4. 
>
>Can anyone tell me if INGRES Windows 4GL are ported to other 
>hardware-platforms such as Decstation? If not, have anyone heard of a release
>date ?

It is ported to the Sun 4 and some other platforms, of which I believe
the DECstation is one. It is being ported, or will be ported, to numerous
otehr platforms as well, including large multiprocessor UNIX boxes,
such as the Encore Multimax.

>A rumour:  INGRES Windows 4GL will not be ported to the SUN-3 platform.
>Can someone confirm this rumour?
>  
>There must be a lot of sites out there still running SUN-3's who want this
>product, or ?

Well, the Sun 3 architecture isn't redeveloped further, and there won't
be any more o/s releases for it. Why would any software vendor want
to port new products to it? Note that I'm not nessecarily agreeing
with Sun and/or Ingres here, being a Sun 3 user myself.

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