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From: oppenhei@umd5.umd.edu (Richard Oppenheimer)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: HyperCard for MS-WINDOWS
Message-ID: <6102@umd5.umd.edu>
Date: 8 Feb 90 05:08:37 GMT
References: <34095@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <5031@daimi.dk> <5056@daimi.dk> <1777@milton.acs.washington.edu>
Reply-To: oppenhei@umd5.umd.edu (Richard Oppenheimer)
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In article <1777@milton.acs.washington.edu> milton@milton.acs.washington.edu (Stephen Milton) writes:
>In article <5056@daimi.dk> sorenr@daimi.DK () writes:
>>I've heared about a system called Omnis 5.0 that should have the possebilyties like 
>>thoese of Hypercard .....
>>
>Omnis 5.0 is a Macintosh Relational Database Program, it may have a windows
>version but I've never heard of it.
>The Mac Zone (a macintosh software mailorder house) uses Omnis III to run its
>customer database, on an SE/30 network, this is how I heard of it.
>

Ominis 5.0 for Windows is out now. The previous Windows version was called
Omnis Quartz. I believe the MAC version has been upgraded as well. It is 
supposed to be fabulous.

The term Relational Database springs to mind visions of a Windows version of
dBase. This product is nothing like that at all and has many application
ideas in common with the MAC Hypercard although it differs greatly from that
as well. It is more along the lines of SuperBase 4 both of which dramatically
change the meaning of Relational Database. At least what PC users think of it.

Richard Oppenheimer
oppenhei@umd5.umd.edu