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.

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			POWERflex Corporation	Developers of PFXplus
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NOTE:	All opinions are mine, and bear no necessary relation to those
	held by my employers.

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