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From: bromo@mips.UUCP (Bob Abramovitz)
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Subject: Re: Wanted ... Database program for a Mac.
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Date: Mon, 6-Jan-86 06:51:41 EST
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A few months ago I tested a beta version of Interlace by Singular Software.
It is a fully relational database that also contains the power of a spreadsheet.
Any field in a table can used like a cell of a spredsheet.  All the standard
spreadsheet functions are supported.  On the database side, you can define
the schema graphically, perform all kinds of queries, exploit many to many 
relationships and display multiple views.  It was fast and powerful.  
It does not require learning a new programming language.  Any thing that 
you needed command language for in Omnis could be done graphically, on 
the screen.  It is not graphical in the Helix sense, with a hundred :-) 
different icons representing different functions.  It is tabular, like 
the relations it describes. The best part is the price,  $95.00 retail.

Although I know some of the programmers involved, I have no contection with
Singular Software.  If there is sufficient interest I will post an extended 
review to the net.

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