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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Still no Ami businessware.
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Date: 10 Mar 91 19:31:17 GMT
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In article <patrick_meloy.1509@outbound.wimsey.bc.ca> patrick_meloy@outbound.wimsey.bc.ca (Patrick Meloy) writes:
>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]
>
>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.
>
	I don't know what everyone keeps complaining about, at
least in regards to databases. If you need the 'industry
standard' dBASE, get dbMAN V. It is a dBASE III+ clone with lots
of extensions, and will read dBASE files. And, convenience of
conveniences, AmigaVision is designed to work with dBASE files.
	-- Ethan


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