Re: Anounce: Blackie to provide WWW/RDBMS gateway

RDBMS gateway? there are hundreds. tailored to Informix, useless. priced over $100, truly useless. Consider the Oracle web product which lets you write PL/SQL and get directly to web pages etc. Consider Tango which is dynamic in every way, and can talk ODBC among others. Consider, the simplicity of writing applescripts on the Web*Star to do this, this product is not only late, it is taking the wrong direction, and is clearly overpriced.

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In article <4c7l8l$om7_at_shellx.best.com>, blackie_at_shellx.best.com (Jim
Johnson) wrote:



>              Blackie DBGateway Technologies Corp.- Press Release


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>     Blackie Launches First-Generation RDBMS/WWW Gateway Architecture and

>                                   Products

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>   Open Extensible Architecture and Products for the present and the future

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> Newark, California, USA, Dec. 29, 1995 -- Blackie DBGateway Technologies

> Corp., today announced its Open Extensible Architecture (OEA), an open and

> flexible RDBMS/WWW Gateway Architecture that is the basis of the

> Blackie/WWWEnterprise/15 product line, BWE/15.

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> Available in 30 days, BWE/15 is designed to address the growing needs of

> managing the dissemination and collection of information via the WWW. Using

> BWE/15, information residing in your relational databases can be made

> accessible to your customers, prospects, employees, business partners,

> government officials, and to the vast-growing world of on-line users. In

> addition, you may collect information from these users and deposit it into

> your databases automatically. BWE/15 has built in user identification,

> authentication, and authorization features that provide assurance against

> unauthorized access. It has additional auditing feature to provide an audit

> trail of database transactions. It supports all Informix data types,

> including the retrieval of binary and text data. Your users can be given the

> ability to run your existing reports or SQL scripts on the WWW. They can

> also run ad-hoc SQL commands, query/update using HTML forms or text search

> on your databases.

> 

> These features are intuitively designed for ease of use. Using simple point

> and click commands, your users may enter information into your databases and

> retrieve it from anywhere in the world. The BWE/15 comes in four packagings:

> Basic, Web, DB, and Premium. The Basic package contains BWE/15 only. The Web

> package contains the Basic package, the Netscape browser, and the CERN HTTPD

> server. The DB package contains the Basic package and the INFORMIX database

> server of your choice. The Premium package contains the Web package and the

> INFORMIX server. Pricing information is listed below. An installation script

> comes with all four packages allowing you to plug-and-play. If you wish to

> install other WWW servers, or browsers such as Mosaic or AirMosaic,

> information is provided along with the BWE/15 to assist you in obtaining

> your desired server or browser.

> 

> Product Availability. BWE/15 for Informix on the SUN workstations running

> SUN OS 4.1.3 and Solaris 2.3 or above on Sparc and X86 will be available in

> 30 days. Ordering and pricing information is available at

> http://www.blackie.com/bwe15/order.html. System requirements are available

> at http://www.blackie.com/bwe15/sys_req.html. More product information is

> available at http://www.blackie.com/bwe15/product.html.

> 

> Pricing information. The Basic package lists for $900, and the optional

> technical support is $900 per year. The Web package lists for $1,800, and

> the optional technical support is $1,800 per year. The DB package lists for

> $2,700 plus the cost of Informix product, and the optional technical support

> is $2,700 per year. The Premium package lists for $3,600 plus the cost of

> Informix product, and the optional technical support is $3,600 per year. You

> may subscribe to any of the four levels of technical support regardless of

> the package you order.

> 

> Future products. BWE/15 for Oracle, DB2, Sybase and CA-OpenIngres, as well

> as BWE/15 on other UNIX workstations such as HP, IBM and others will be

> announced in the coming quarters of 1996.

> 

> About Blackie. Blackie is a startup company based in Newark, California. It

> is located within 10 miles of the Silicon Valley. It provides RDBMS/WWW

> gateway products for businesses to conduct electronic commerce. Its products

> run on UNIX workstations made by Sun Microsystems, Inc. The company may be

> reached via Email: market_at_blackie.com, FAX: (510) 794-9731, URL:

> http://www.blackie.com, Phone: (510) 793-2552, and mail: 6167 Jarvis Ave.,

> Suite 283, Newark, CA 94560, USA.