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From: obb130t@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Dataflex
Message-ID: <3660@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
Date: 17 Apr 89 04:16:33 GMT
References: <3278@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> <9133@watcgl.waterloo.edu> <3513@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au> <9251@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
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In article <9251@watcgl.waterloo.edu>, cslewis@lily.waterloo.edu (Cary Lewis) writes:
> Well only time will tell, but I have a good feeling about this release.

We now have reports back from the conference.  The people here seem to know
Canveon well.  Perhaps you know Tom Aczel, Paul O'Connor?

Anyway, while the distributors are full of positive things to say, the user 
group is not confident.  Samples of the new object-oriented code left
everyone confused.  Quotes of the new Relational Report Writer costing $600-800
on top of Dataflex, and no option to generate source code to distribute.
Lots of stuff about gateways and database engines for the corporate user, but
the main users here are small business and they didn't sound happy.

Added to which, no release date and no pricing.  But support being dropped 
for some operating systems including Turbodos and Concurrent CPM.
Presumably we'll learn something positive soon but the vibes were double plus
ungood.

BTW, have you heard that POWERflex runs Dataflex programs better than Dataflex
does?
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