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From: DOUG@ysub.ysu.edu (Doug Sewell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Personal RBase vs Clarion Personal Developer
Message-ID: <91077.105954DOUG@ysub.ysu.edu>
Date: 18 Mar 91 15:59:54 GMT
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I was in a local software shop and just ran across Personal RBase
on their shelf (I think it's a new product).

I'd been looking at getting Clarion Personal Developer up to this
point.  I've seen a demo-disk of Clarion before.  The professional
versions of both products have received excellent ratings.

Both are reasonably priced (<$100).  Both seem to be full-featured
(for the price, anyway) environments for application development.
I'm not interested in a product confined to an environment (IE you
must own software X in order to run an application, template, or
worksheet written for it).  Right now I'm leaning towards Clarion.

- Does anyone have experience with either or both (I'm interested
  in these versions, not the full-blown development versions - I
  believe that apps from either can be moved to their 'big brother').

- Clarion specifically allows redistribution (with a special execute-
  only runtime module).  Does Personal Rbase (1) allow redistribution
  of applications ?  (2) Provide a runtime program of sorts for their
  apps ?  I'm not (right now, anyway) looking at commercial or shareware
  redistribution, but I might down the road a little bit.

- Are either program 'crippled' ?  Clarion doesn't appear to be in any
  significant way.  What about Personal Rbase ?

Thanks, Doug
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Doug Sewell, Tech Support, Computer Center,         doug@ysub.bitnet
Youngstown State University, Youngstown,  OH 44555  doug@ysub.ysu.edu
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