heskett@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Donald Heskett) (04/08/91)
MacExpress is offering DBase-Mac, originally priced around $250, for $59. Anyone know the why of the big price cut? Comments on the quality and utility of the product are also welcome.
c60c-4iu@web-4f.berkeley.edu (Gary Arnold) (04/09/91)
Can anyone out there please give me some information on dBase Mac? For example, is it equivalent to dBase IV? III? II (:-()? How similar/different is it to/from dBase for the IBM? Thanks in advance for any help! Gary Arnold c60c-4iu@web.berkeley.edu
schitre@euler.claremont.edu (04/10/91)
In article <HESKETT.91Apr7144932@polymnia.titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu>, heskett@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Donald Heskett) writes: > MacExpress is offering DBase-Mac, originally priced around $250, for > $59. Anyone know the why of the big price cut? > > Comments on the quality and utility of the product are also welcome. The last couple of times I saw deals like this the manufacturer was coming out with a new version and would not take back the copies of the old one the distributor already had. So, the distributor cuts losses by selling them really cheap. As a registered user you can buy the upgrade for less than half the money you save. You get a good deal on the software, and they get some money of out it to recoupe their expenses. As for the product itself, I've used in and in its field it's a lot better than a spreadsheet trying to emulate a data- base package. However it's not particularly easy to learn (you'll definitely need the manuals) and generating reports and forms can be pretty slow if they're long. If you have a fast machine (030 based w/ co-processor) then you'll be fine on that count. The database I created required customer records, which were no big deal, and sales records, which were a real pain. If you want the program to check the sales item numbers against a database of items and then automatically insert the price you could be working a long time, even though there's an example of how to do it in the book. It's a decent program, and for only $59 it's worth the deal. Sunil
sacha@bernina.ethz.ch (Sacha Kalchofner) (04/10/91)
Look for another program... dBase Mac is just too slow etc.
hoepfner@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov (Patrick Hoepfner) (04/11/91)
I just finished reading about a run-time version of Dbase IV 1.1 for the
Mac. This means that you can run and debug you Dbase IV 1.1 programs from
the PC.
It doesn't have a mac front end *yet* but then again, those who want
to run Dbase IV on a mac can't be too interested in appearances :-)
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