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From: louis@auvax.UUCP (Louis Schmittroth)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Dbase question
Summary: Consider FoxBase+
Message-ID: <669@auvax.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jun 88 17:34:16 GMT
References: <54973@sun.uucp> <592@stech.UUCP>
Organization: Athabasca U., Alberta, Canada
Lines: 33

In article <592@stech.UUCP>, sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington) writes:
> in article <54973@sun.uucp>, amyjo%naima@Sun.COM (Amy Jo Bilson) says:
> > 
> > Is anyone out there familiar enough with the Dbase (III, etc.)
> > product to tell me if this system is "multi-user", and if so,
> > what facilities they provide (i.e. locking, transactions)
> > 
> > My brother, who owns and runs his own small (5-person) business,
> > has a rather large investment in Dbase software, and he really needs
> > to set up a system whereby 3 or 4 users can access the same database, 
> > at (approximately) the same time.
> > 

Consider FoxBase+ (F+) on SCO Xenix or a LAN.  F+ is a complete
replacement for dBase III+ (D+), with both an interpreter giving you
the complete dot prompt capability of D+, and a compiler which speeds
up D+ by anywhere from 3 to 6 times depending on the operation.  It is
utterly compatible but has a few real nice extensions, and is cheaper.
We are moving all our applications from dBase to FoxBase on both MS-DOS
and SCO Xenix.  For portability, F+ also runs on Macs, and a UNIX
System V version is in the works.  We run into this situation also, and
have decided to go with SCO Xenix and FoxBase+ for multi-user
migration.  We also supply VP/ix to run DOS only applications.


A lot of D+ applications have already been moved to F+ both on DOS
and Xenix.

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Louis Schmittroth		           My employer has no opinions.
Computer Science
Athabasca University   ...{ubc-vision, ihnp4}!alberta!auvax!louis