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Just this week we had a presentation from Forte'.  It looks to be a very
impressive product in terms of capabilities.  But:
 
- it does not support MPE/iX and they don't have any plans to in the future.
 
- ODBC driver support is still in beta test.  They currently support Oracle,
Sybase, RDB with native drivers.
 
- the starter kit costs $75,000 for 5 developer licenses, 10 runtime licenses,
one server license, one database driver, and training.  For a 50+ user
environment with multiple databases and servers, expect to spend at least
$250,000.
 
Having said all that, we are still interested.  There are capabilities claimed
for Forte' that other client/server vendors haven't even thought about.
 
Robert Joseph
The NPD Group
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