Re: [GNUe] Reports from DBF Files (2)

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Peter Sullivan wrote:

> My $0.02 :
>
> The main purpose of a dBase driver to me would be to do 
> one-off transfers from legacy applications. I can't 
> imagine anyone wanting to use dBase as a back-end for a 
> new GNUe application. Are there any more "modern" RDBMS 
> systems that use the dBase format *natively* (as opposed 
> to an import/export option)?
>  
I have heard  (but never seen/used it)  of a product called Fortress which
is a RDBMS that uses dbf files to store the data.  I've understod that
it is possible for Fortress to use dbf files that already exist , and 
combine
those files into a database with transactions,  odbc access and other 
goodies.
The guy who told me about it was quite confident that Fortress is a good
path for him (he is migrating his applications from dbf  files to 'real' 
databases  ;
the development tool he uses is CA Visual Object which is able to use
both dbf files and  odbc ).

After a little googling i could found this link about Fortress :
http://www.grafxsoft.com/fortress.htm


Cheers,
Adrian Maier