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From: drew@objy.com (Drew Wade)
Subject: Re: Wanted soon: ODBC/Reporting tools for Gemstone!
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Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 20:10:33 GMT
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In article <4888et$34i@newshost.lanl.gov>,
tgt@lanl.gov (Thierry G. Thelliez) wrote:

[...]
>In article <4880q1$4k7@news.inc.net>
>Karen Jacqmin-Adams <kadams@froglit.scitele.com> writes:
>
>> I saw some posts our here regarding papers for reporting tools for 
>> Gemstone from OOPLSA 95 and the rumor of ODBC for Gemstone being 
>> implmented by Telos.
>
>I guess you are talking about my first post.
>
>Yes, there is a need for reporting tools for GemStone.
>And Yes there are people working on that.
>
[...]
>
>Your choices are:
>- Wait few months if you can. An ODBC driver will come sooner
>or later (by Telos or others).
>- Develop your own tools if your needs are not too high
>(like we did). 
>- Have a look to the VisualWorks products (since
>with the 3/3 architecture you will do your application
>with an other environment, you can use VW !). They
>have some tools dealing with that. I have discussed
>with the people of Synergsitic Software. They have a
>Smalltalk SQL product and some report tools available.

of course, another choice would be to use another odbms that supports
smalltalk and also odbc.  :)
-drew

>
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Thierry
>...................................................................
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