xdaa374@ut-emx.UUCP (William T. Douglass) (06/01/90)
Does anyone know of plans from for Apple, or anybody else, to port Apple's CL/I server software to systems other then IBM's MVS, VM and DEC's VMS. I am especially interested in intentions to develop for any of the various Unix variations. I would greately appreciate any feedback or comments anyone has to offer. Of course, anyone at Apple is invited to comment. Please e-mail, as this is cross-posted to several newsgroups. I will summarize responses for the net. Thanks. -- Bill Douglass, TCADA "I dreamed I was to take a test, in a Dairy Queen, on another planet." L. Anderson
kh0r+@andrew.cmu.edu (Ken J. Hallinen) (06/04/90)
I tried to mail this directly but it didn't make it. I'm not certain of Apple's plans for CL/1, they're calling it DAL for Data Access Language now. However, I have been looking at another product called ClearAccess. This is a desk accessory that works with CL/1 to allow the user to build their queries by pointing and clicking rather than learning sql. These queries can be saved as scripts to be run again later as well. They can also be called from within a Microsoft Excel macro allowing you to download the information directly into your spreadsheet. The part that might be interesting to you is that ClearAccess can talk directly to Oracle without CL/1. When I last spoke to their rep at the beginning of May I was told they plan to write other direct connects to database packages. ClearAccess is marketed by Fairfield Software, 200 West Lowe, Fairfield, Iowa 52556. Ridley Hutchinson is the National Accounts Manager (515)472-7077. Let me know how if you find anything interesting. I am still looking at this myself. We will most likely be going with both packages. Ken Hallinen Business Manager VP's Office Academic Services Carnegie Mellon University kh0r+@andrew.cmu.edu