Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1998 11:40:22 +1100 From: "Gary R. Schmidt" <grs@pfxcorp.com> To: lwn@lwn.net Subject: COMMERCIAL: POWERflex releases PFXplus Database Application for LINUX PRESS RELEASE POWERflex Corporation is pleased to announce the release of PFXplus for LINUX version 4.30, available immediately! Built on RedHat LINUX 5.1, kernel build 2.0.34, the LINUX port is available for PFXplus Development Licences and Distribution Runtimes. This superb product is of the same high quality and standard as the full range of existing PFXplus products and as with all of our products, comes with a 30 day money back guarantee. Check it out; you won't be disappointed! POWERflex Corporation is the developer and manufacturer of a high performance multi-user Application Development Software product called PFXplus, or POWERflex. With it you can create industrial strength commercial quality network business applications which are portable between MSDOS, OS/2, Unix (including SCO, LINUX and Xenix) and Windows 3.1, 95-98 or NT. POWERflex is an extremely fast and powerful product capable of handling extremely large data files. Selected Features of PFXplus: Fast, Industrial Strength Database, first released in 1989, which is under continuous development and enhancement. Highly portable code at both the source and runtime level. Some of the UNIX platforms on which PFXplus is available: AIX, HP-UX, SCO Xenix, SCO UNIX, DEC Alpha. Contact us if you want to know about your platform. Compile on any Intel x86 architecture machine, run on any Intel x86 machine, whether it is running MS-DOS, SCO UNIX, Windows 9x, SCO Xenix, Windows NT, or Linux, or any machine with the same byte order. Database files are byte order independent, move data from a RISC machine to a PC without having to unload and reload data. All UNIX platforms support the same functionality, if you can do it on one, you can do it on others. Products developed by POWERflex Corporation other than PFXplus include the following, which support both Unix and Windows environments: PFXdebug - a superb source code debugger which includes a watch window for variables, expressions and array elements, a persistent variables windows, sorted name lists, gosub calls on call stack and more. PFXsort - a program used to update PXFplus database index files at amazingly fast speed. PFXbrowse - allows quick and easy look-up access to any database file plus optional editing capabilities. POWERflex Reporter - used to generate and run reports. PFX C-lib - a set of libraries which allow lightning fast access to PFXplus data files by third party languages. Other products supporting Windows environments include: The PFXplus Dialog Resource Editor - allows visual manipulation of screen layouts; a very useful tool for PFXplus for Windows developers. The PFXplus ODBC Driver - allows access to data contained in PFXplus file format from any ODBC compliant front-end application. PFXplus Driver for Crystal Reports - coming soon, which will allow PFXplus data files to be accessed by Seagate Crystal Reports. One the most exciting and unique features of PFXplus is that in Win16 and Win32 environments it allows developers to migrate their character mode applications to Windows without rewriting the source code. That's right! It is possible to retain existing procedural code and still convert character- mode programs to graphical mode with a true Windows appearance, Windows features, graphical user interface, mouse control, windows messaging - the works! For further information about POWERflex Corporation or any of our products, visit our web site at http://www.pfxcorp.com or contact POWERflex Corporation at: E-mail: mailto:info@pfxcorp.com By fax: +61 3 9888 5451 By telephone: +61 3 9888 5833 To order, e-mail mailto:sales@pfxcorp.com or contact the numbers above. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary R. Schmidt at Work: grs@pfxcorp.com POWERflex Corporation Developers of PFXplus Vox: +61 3 9888 5833 Fax: +61 3 9888 5451 Visit our Web Site: www.pfxcorp.com NOTE: All opinions are mine, and bear no necessary relation to those held by my employers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------