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From: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: DATAFLEX
Keywords: RDBMS, Dataflex
Message-ID: <1990Feb9.045336.1868@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us>
Date: 9 Feb 90 04:53:36 GMT
References: <16703@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
Reply-To: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine)
Organization: Segue Software, Cambridge MA
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In article <16703@boulder.Colorado.EDU> deac@tigger.colorado.edu (Deac Lancaster) writes:
>Does anyone out there know of an RDBMS call Dataflex?

I used it a few years ago to write a multi-user order processing application.
It really is more of a network DBMS, you can pre-join files so that, for
example, each time you fetch an order record the corresponding customer
record is available too.

It has a semi-compiled programming language that is not great but can be made
to do anything if you're persistent enough.  Screen handling is pretty good,
and the compiled byte code is portable among a zillion platforms.  There is
a simple but useful query language.

The reason I chose it then, and I'd probably choose it again, is that it
really worked for a multiuser database on a PC network.  I gather that more
recently the query language has been improved and they have some sort of
office package with a word processor that sits on top of it.

It's from Data Access Corp in, as I recall, Ft. Lauderdale.
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