#Ca clipper software drivers

The firm has told WorkGroup Solutions it can only offer Champion under FlagShip, and only under another name. WorkGroup is now trying to convince Champion Business Software Inc to put its popular Champion personal computer accounting package up under FlagShip. WorkGroup Solutions claims FlagShip, a seven-year-old European development from Multisoft, will have more object-oriented functionality than most other languages with the exception of Smalltalk, once AppSolutions Inc brings its CA-Clipper-based Class(y) object system to FlagShip.

#Ca clipper software drivers

WorkGroup Solutions will soon offer new Replaceable Database Drivers that will link applications automatically right into SQL-based or any other data engines.

It uses Unix database engines by linking Oracle, Sybase, Informix or other applications programming interfaces into FlagShip hooks. FlagShip can compile MS-DOS Clipper code on to Unix and can share files between MS-DOS and Unix systems as far as operating system (in)compatibility enables, says Bolzern.

WorkGroup Solutions will sell FlagShip for between $990 and $5,700 depending on Unix system system вЂ“ compared with the tens of thousands of dollars a conventional proprietary language for Unix may cost and there is no royalty charge for re-distributing applications written using FlagShip, and no run-time fees. According to WorkGroup Solutions president Mark Bolzern, one line of the Xbase system вЂ“ it has a data engine and development environment вЂ“ can create up to 100 lines of C code. WorkGroup Solutions Inc, Aurora, Colorado is hoping to bring the pricing and business model of personal computer software to Unix with version 4.3 of Munich, Germany-based Multisoft GmbHвЂ™s FlagShip 4.3 implementation of the CA-Clipper proprietary language for Unix.