Patrick,
 
Just to clarify your musing,  M. B. Foster Associates Limited is the sole
technology owner and developer of ODBCLink (tm) and option of
DataExpress(tm). Product development has been directed by M. B. Foster
Associates Limited and performed by its employees and/or contractors,
based upon a limited code base acquired with all rights from ODB, Inc'.s
sole employee, over 2 and a half years ago.
 
We have  come a long way with the development since the early days ...
most of the leading features, including the 32 bit version have of course
been developed since that time. The driver has evolved and is offered as
an option of  DataExpress, a leading data extraction tool for the HP
market for many years.
 
As an alternative source of ODBC access to HP3000's and HP9000's, our
DataExpress customers have expressed a high level of satisfaction with
both our 16 and 32 bit drivers. A full trial is available for $100 plus
shipping.
 
A brief summary of features is as follows:
 
DataExpress is the premier data extraction tool in the HP3000 community.
It's feature set includes the following:
- data input from Image, Allbase, KSAM, MPE flat files or combinations
- data catalogs from Cognos and HP as well as our own utilities
- output to many formats including reports, Lotus-123, Dbase, etc
- ability to define and store procedures with optional run-time parameters
- comprehensive "user profile" capabilities to control who can see what
data
- tight interface to WRQ products
 
The ODBCLink (tm) option includes the following features:
- 32bit drivers delivering NOW!
- read and write access to data with specified security
- TurboImage without Image/SQL (ie uses TurboImage intrinsics directly)
- TPI support in native TurboImage
- Allbase and Image/SQL
- KSAM and MPE Flat files
- simple data dictionary facility for KSAM and MPE Flat files
- Cognos PDL dictionary support
- interfaces to Impromptu, MS Access, Powerbuilder, MS Excel and many
others
- supports serial link (hard-wired plus modem connections)
- supports winsock connections via lan
- supports serial or lan connection via WRQ PPL
 
For more information or to discuss how these tools could help you solve
your
data accessing problems, contact M.B. Foster at 613-448-2333 or by FAX at
613-448-2588.
 
 
Birket Foster
M. B. Foster Associates
 
 
Birket Foster
M. B. Foster Associates .. the 1-800-ANSWERS people!
(613) 448-2333 or (613) 448-2588 (FAX)
(Thanks for your support of our 32bit DataExpress ODBCLink Driver)