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- From: gregb@murphy.com (Greg Banschbach (Unigroup of New York))
- Subject: Re: ESQL for PC
- Message-ID: <BxK4Ev.5F1@murphy.com>
- Keywords: esql
- Organization: Murphy & Durieu, NYC NY, USA
- References: <1992Nov9.224638.2895@cs.brown.edu> <1992Nov9.231329.27955@gtech.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 15:01:42 GMT
- Lines: 43
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- In article <1992Nov9.231329.27955@gtech.com> trp@gtech.com (Tom R. Peterson (consultant)) writes:
- >Some friends and I are considering developing a basic
- >yet robust esql precompiler to be sold in the $200-500
- >range, for the PC and/or Windows/NT market. Our hope is
- >to get reliable SQL into the hands of PC programmers.
- >
- >I would greatly appreciate input:
- > do such products already exist in that price range?
-
-
- --> I have heard of one product: FirstSQL C from FFE Software, Inc.
- --> Price: About $375 to $395 range.
- --> They claim to have a product which will allow you to either write
- --> 'C' programs which manipulate either a dBase file or their own,
-
- --> OR both, and 2nd, the ability to enter SQL statements into the source
- --> code which will manipulate these files.
-
- --> The description I have is not THEIR Literature so you should
- --> contact them to get a clearer picture of the product.
-
- --> It APPEARS as though they have a Windows/DLL thing also.
-
- --> What might be a nice thing to make your product more competitive
- --> is to be able to manipulate Paradox files AS well as dBase, FoxBase
- --> Btrieve, Oracle, Informix .......you get the idea.
- -->
- -->
- > does this sound like a usefull thing?
- --> Yes.
-
- > any suggestions for reference material?
- --> Get the Paradox Engine, or start calling around to some of the
- --> competition to see if you can get royalty free sources for the
- --> needed file formats.
- -->
- --> Good Luck.
-
- Greg ( gregb@murphy.com )
-
- OF course the ideas and opinions here are my own and NOT related to
- Murphy & Durieu
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