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From: ries@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Marc Ries)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Superbase 4 Windows
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Date: 8 May 91 23:03:21 GMT
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Reply-To: ries@venice.sedd.trw.com (Marc Ries)
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>	We obtained a demo version for Superbase-4-Windows from Precison Inc.
>	(a U.K. based company with offices in Irving,TX)
>	Supposedly dBaseIV compatible(?) but works with Microsoft Windows.
>	Demo looks impressive.
>
>	Does anyone have any info/opinion/comments on this product ?

  I have Superbase2, which is the "low-end" relative to the 
  developer's Superbase4.  I use windows almost exclusively, so (at
  least a year or so ago) my choice was limited.  While in some
  cases, the windows interface is nice and WYSIWYG, in many cases
  simple things (like a report generator with custom grouping) that you 
  could normally do quickly and precisely in a DBMS like Informix,  
  is tedious under the Superbase2 MMI.

  While Superbase is "compatible" with dbase, it's pretty limited.
  I don't have the manual handy, but the dbase "mirror" DB is pretty
  much read-only, and data is "filtered" to-from the Superbase DB.

  The dbase "mirror" is also slow (slower than the same data in
  a Superbase DB), especially on large DB's (like the dbase zipcode DB 
  posted a while back).