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From: cag@tigger.planet.bt.co.uk (Chris Green,SSTF,5788,)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Oracle for PC/Quicksilver
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Date: 14 Feb 90 12:47:53 GMT
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From article <2521@bilpin.UUCP>, by nick@bilpin.UUCP (Nick Price):
> We dont do much with PC's and are strongly unix based so I would much rather
> he chose ORACLE. It would seem that ORACLE's new products Quicksilver and
> DBxl (the Dbase 111+ compiler and interpreter) may be the way to go. So
> my question; Does anyone have any direct experience of these products ?
> Any other comments on Oracle for PC's (Professional Oracle) would also be
> useful.
> 
"ORACLE's new products Quicksilver and DBxL...."????????  Unless
something has happened very recently Quicksilver and DBxL are
produced by a company called Wordtech.  I recently (about October '89)
got an udpdate of my copy of DBxL to version 1.3 having bought it
originally earlier last year.  It is a pretty standard Dbase III clone
with some extensions, particularly windowing and extra memory variable
facilities.  I bought it because it is much cheaper than the other
Dbase III clones, my version 1.2 cost <100 pounds and the update to
version 1.3 was free.

Chris Green

(chris@kbss.bt.co.uk  or cgreen@ibmpcug.co.uk)