Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!pacbell.com!tandem!netcom!rodent From: rodent@netcom.COM (Ben Discoe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Still no Ami businessware. Message-ID: <27839@netcom.COM> Date: 12 Mar 91 01:54:59 GMT References: Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services UNIX System {408 241-9760 guest} Lines: 27 patrick_meloy@outbound.wimsey.bc.ca (Patrick Meloy) writes: >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. Once again, allow me to mention dBMan 5, a dBaseIII clone with enough extra features to compete with dBaseIV, Clipper, etc. dBMan has been available for 5 years on the Amiga! The current version, 5.3, runs under AmigaOS2.0 and allows all kinds of color/resolution options. No, the user interface isn't quite Amigatized, but it's better than dBaseIII and most other stuff people use in the MSDOS world. And there's a friendly Amiga fanatic on tech support: myself. dBMan is cheap, too - check your favorite mail order ad. ... please excuse my obvious bias as support and main programmer for VersaSoft, but I've been an Amiga user for 6 years and I know that this sort of software is exactly what the Amiga could use some more of. ------------------------------ Ben in San Jose, a horrible place to live, but hey, gotta pay those bills..