Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!garnet.berkeley.edu!bmug From: bmug@garnet.berkeley.edu (BMUG) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: 4th Dimension and Oracle links Keywords: Oracle, FoxBase+/Mac, A/UX Message-ID: <22601@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 4 Apr 89 16:31:14 GMT References: <1269@Portia.Stanford.EDU> <11739@ut-emx.UUCP> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 28 In article <11739@ut-emx.UUCP> xdaa374@emx.UUCP (Bill Douglass) writes: > > Also, any word on a similar fromnt-end >arrangement for the next version of FoxBase+/Mac? That would be a boon to our >work, seeing as we have done most of our development in FoxBase already. We >have Oracle for the Mac, and would be interested in using either a '386 or >Mac IIx with A/UX for an Oracle server. Anyone have any leads on the >feasability of this (in the near future?) > Although a FoxBase front end for Oracle would seem feasible, it's perhaps less than 50% likely to happen, since Fox is bringing out their own SQL server software (see the latest issue of InfoWorld); so they'd hardly want to directly support a competing product. Oracle in theory could prepare a front end of their own in FoxBase, but there hasn't been any hint of this happening as of yet. 4th Dimension and Hypercard, which have (or are soon to have) front ends for Oracle, don't have the same product complications as FoxBase. Incidentally, it may not be too long before you see 4th Dimension front ends for Sybase SQL servers... John Heckendorn /\ BMUG ARPA: bmug@garnet.berkeley.EDU A__A 1442A Walnut St., #62 BITNET: bmug@ucbgarnet |()| Berkeley, CA 94709 | | (415) 549-2684 | |