Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watcgl!lily!cslewis
From: cslewis@lily.waterloo.edu (Cary Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Dataflex
Message-ID: <9251@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Date: 15 Apr 89 18:50:50 GMT
References: <3278@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> <9133@watcgl.waterloo.edu> <3513@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
Sender: daemon@watcgl.waterloo.edu
Reply-To: cslewis@lily.waterloo.edu (Cary Lewis)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
Lines: 24

In article <3513@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> obb130t@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au writes:
>Care to post some figures about Dataflex usage in Canada?  Canveon?  
>(BTW, I don't even known where waterloo.edu is)
>
Well, the University of Waterloo is located about 110 km (60 miles) west 
of Toronto Ontario. It features the world's biggest math faculty. There
are about 20000 full time students, and there is a work co-op program
available in almost every facutly.

As to the Canadian useage of Dataflex, I don't have exact numbers, but there
are probably at least 500 developers, and  more than a thousand companies/
orgraniztions using Dataflex. Some of the biggies are PetroCanada, Tenneco
(Speedy Muffler King), Drake Training. 

>[re 3.0] SQL only for the query/reporting product I believe.
>From what we've heard, they've written an object-orientated Windows/Icon/Mouse
>interface - sort of like WIndows or SAA.  Big job that - hope they got it 
>right!

Well only time will tell, but I have a good feeling about this release.

>From which it would appear that Canveon uses Unix?

We have a AT&T 3B2 in the office, but it isn't on the net yet.