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From: tomr@ashtate (Tom Rombouts)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Using same database from Macs and Suns
Keywords: dbase, foxbase, macintosh, sun
Message-ID: <1990Dec3.180958.27020@ashtate>
Date: 3 Dec 90 18:09:58 GMT
References: <3894@epiwrl.EPI.COM>
Reply-To: tomr@ashton.UUCP (Tom Rombouts)
Organization: Ashton-Tate, Torrance, CA
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In article <3894@epiwrl.EPI.COM> nelson@epiwrl.EPI.COM (Ken Nelson) writes:
>Our marketing people use Macintoshes and Dbase/Foxbase based prospect
>tracking software.  ....<deletion>....
>
>Could my engineers running DBASE for the Sun, or FoxBase, use the database
>at the same time as the marketing people on the Macs?  

I hope this does not sound like a commercial, but Ashton-Tate was giving
a continuous demo of a heterogenious network spread across a PC, a Sun, a
Mac and a VAX at Las Vegas COMDEX.  Admittedly, both the Sun and Mac
versions are still in beta (the first VAX/VMS version was completed and is
now in DEC's hands) but they are close to being completed.

To sound less like a commercial, in theory, with careful coding, you could
continue to use Foxbase on the Macs and use the Ashton-Tate product on the
Suns when it is available.  


Tom Rombouts  Torrance Techie  tomr@ashtate.A-T.com  V:(213)538-7108


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