Jeff,

Thanks for the informative reply. My apologies for not acknowledging (sp?) sooner but
I was away from my site for a while. A load of things to check out. I've been drifting away from the HP 3000 for awhile -
doing Oracle and Powerbuilder development on *other* platforms. But I still manage to fields calls and provide some support
for HP 3000 users and support programmers. I've been afraid that if I stayed with the HP 3000 that I'd be left out to pasture
with the dinosaurs. But my recent research leads me to believe that HP 3000 continues to be a great platform - and is keeping
right up with current trends.

But I still need to know why Allbase doesn't seem to be used by more shops? Anybody have any ideas?

Thanks again,
Mike Patterson

> From: Jeff Woods <[log in to unmask]>
> Organization: Unison Software (Austin, Texas)
>
> Hi, Mike.
>
> On Mon, 6 Oct 1997 00:03:29 -0300, Mike Patterson wrote:
> ...|I've recently been investigating ALLBASE on MPE/iX 5.0. Can Anyone help
> |me with the following:
>
> |The shop has a lot of Powerhouse software running against Interbase,
> |Image and KSAM data. ... A lot |of stuff I've been reading about the HP platform leads me to believe that ALLBASE may |help
> the client make an easier move from the old
> |programs. So I am trying to find out if ALLBASE is a viable database ...
>
> I highly recommend you look into Image/SQL, which is the latest version of
> Image and which takes your existing Image databases and attaches them to the
> Allbase DBE making them available to Allbase applications, including *ta-da*
> ODBC apps!  HP has a module called ODBClink/SE which is included with
> Image/SQL which provides the ODBC connectivity via the Allbase DBE.  BTW,
> Image (and in it's latest incarnation Image/SQL) makes the HP 3000 and MPE
> probably the best general purpose, highly reliable, easy and inexpensive to
> maintain, fast (really!) database server available today.
>
> There are also multiple third party solutions which provide ODBC access to a
> substantially larger number of file types, including KSAM, etc.  Those I
> know of are: (1) ODBClink (part of an application called DataExpress from
> a company called MBFoster and Assoc. 1-800-ANSWERS) (BTW, HP's ODBCLINK/SE
> is a "Special Edition" of MBF's ODBClink that HP liscensed and supports.);
> (2) a tool from a company known as LinkWay; and (3) another one called
> ODBC32 from a company known as MiniSoft 1-800-682-0200.
>
> ...

> One more suggestion...  Invest $199 a year in a wonderful monthly newsletter
> called "The 3000 NewsWire" at http://www.3k.com/seybold or via email at
> [log in to unmask] ...And in case it's not obvious, the HP 3000 and MPE still has plenty of life
> left in it.
>
> Jeff Woods