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From: patrick_meloy@outbound.wimsey.bc.ca (Patrick Meloy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Still no Ami businessware.
Message-ID: <patrick_meloy.1509@outbound.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 10 Mar 91 18:21:52 GMT
Organization: Outbound Communications
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J. Petersen writes:
>It is frustrating in the *extreme* to go out an buy a whole other computer
>system and software when we love the Amiga and just want to spend the money
>on a good piece of software ($1500 vs $350 is an awfully big difference).
>If we good accomplish our needs on the Amigas, we'd chuck the IBM compatible

[Lots of stuff deleted above]

I agree completely. I run a multi-line BBS and have one simple requirement. I
need a Database that will keep track of users both current and expired, I
need to compare names/phone numbers of new applications against old, and
someplace to keep notes for each user (uploads and the like). The programmer
of the BBS software plans to add these features (and more) to the BBS itself,
but that won't be for quite a while yet.

What we REALLY need is DBASEIII/VI. I know many people hate it with a passion
but it has a ready made pool of professional programmers, loads and loads of
third party books and courses, everything we need for a 'big splash' or
powerful database software.

In the meantime if someone knows any Amiga database software that can read
DBase files, PLEASE let me know. I'm starting this project of mine in
'Maximizer' on an IBM compatible and would like to keep the data at home on
my Ami as well.

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