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- Item 0504389 23-Jan-91 13:12PST
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- From: GER.XSE0096 Germany - Ciechowski Computer,IDV
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- To: MACAPP.TECH$ MacApp Technical
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- Sub: Re: TDoc…subcl & ISAM for Mac
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- A few months ago we too had to make a decision for a database-library.
- One of our main requests was to get a product that was running on a lot of
- different platforms. It should be shipped with source-code and be based on the
- C-language.
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- Besides that we wanted to get an almost royalty-free library.
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- After about two months of talks we decided to take faircoms CtreePlus-Library
- which is shipped in C-Source code and available for MacOS, Unix and DOS.
- The library is at very low cost and royalty-free in case You don´t want to run
- a server-version.
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- It can be linked in three different ways, as
- single-user (one user on a single machine)
- multi-user (files are shared, but each app. contains the whole
- access-code, i.e. it is a slow solution)
- and as server (several users on multiple systems)
- application. Only in case of the server-application You have to buy each single
- server. Applications based on one of the other models my be sold roalty-free.
- The written code always is the same.
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- It is possible to use a seperate SQL-based part of the library, but even
- standard CtreePlus gives You a wide range of different features, like:
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- • variable length records
- • Resources in ISAM-Datafiles
- • Users, Groups, Passwords
- • full Transaction processing
- • index-information for one index-entry my be from different parts of the
- data-record
- • configuartion via parameter-file
- • superfiles, i.e. combined index- and datafiles
- • system-independand record-structure
- • … (I am NOT interested in selling this product)
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- The whole library is not as complex as dbVista III from Raima Corp., but it
- does its work well. At a price of far less than $1000 there a LOT of features
- provided and I don´t know, wheter the additional tools of the Raima-Product are
- really worth the difference.
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- Ingo Ciechowski
- (Manager)
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- CIS - Computer Innovations & Service GmbH
- & Ciechowski Computer Innovations
- Ober-Saulheimer Straße 18
- W-6501 Wörrstadt
- Germany
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- Tel.: 49 6732 7354
- Fax.: 49 6732 62059
- Apple-Link: GER.XSE0096
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