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From: john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks III)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,misc.wanted
Subject: Re: Searching for company/software
Summary: Info On Metaphor Computer Systems
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Date: 24 Feb 90 04:34:26 GMT
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In article <24889@ut-emx.UUCP> boerner@ut-emx.UUCP (Brendan B. Boerner) writes:
> A user is doing some research involving advertising and requires
> information regarding the company "Thorn EMI" as well as any
> references to "Metaphor" or "Access".
> She is not sure if "Metaphor" and "Access" are companies or packages
> but thinks that they are somehow involved with IBM PCs.

I have done contract work for Metaphor, the company that invented
DIS (data intrepretation systems).  DIS uses a high-performance
network to connect graphical workstations to database machines.  The
idea is to have a large database easily accessible to non-programmers. 

The founders and key developers of Metaphor are mostly former Xerox PARC
people and were part of the Xerox Star project.  When Xerox did not
try to make the Star a commercial success, many of the team members
left Xerox to form Metaphor.

Metaphor has been in the news recently becuase of a joint-marketing
agreement with IBM.

Metaphor is located in Mt View California...right next to NASA and Sun.

-john-

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