jin@eecg.toronto.edu (Jinwon Kim) (11/09/90)
Someone with experience with Superbase 2 or 4 please tell me about their experience with thes products. What can the 4 do that the 2 can't? Anyone with experience with some other win3 database program want to comment as well? Please email reponses to jin@eecg.toronto.edu or post to the net. Thanks.
gt6337a@prism.gatech.EDU (Niel M. Bornstein) (11/09/90)
I'm also interested in hearing about Superbase. We're trying to narrow down our choice between Omnis 5 and Superbase and need more info. Please post! Niel -- * Niel M. Bornstein gt6337a@prism.gatech.edu * * Even if I understood the opinions of Georgia Tech, I couldn't explain them. * Scooter Technologies - DSB, we got the cure
noahj@wet.UUCP (Noah Jacobs) (11/13/90)
Think of Superbase2 as a runtime version of Superbase 4...it will execute programs written in Superbase DML language, but you can't use SB2 to write the programs. I'm very impressed with Superbase 4. It includes a forms generator which can embed commands in the forms. In some ways, it's a lot like Hypercard in the things you can do with it. One thing that SB4 doesn't do well is manage a database which consits of graphics. You can link a graphic file to an SB4 database record. You can print the graphic, or display it to the screen, but that's all. There is no way, for example, to copy the graphic to the clipboard. Unfortunately, Precision Software implies in its ads that SB4 can be used to manage a graphic database. In spite of this deficiency, I would recommend the product so long as you understand this limitation. Omnis5 does not have some of the goodies included in SB4. It does offer file compatibility between Windows and Mac versions, which SB4 doesn't. If you need an easy way to port applications between the two machines, Omnis is the only way to go. --NJ