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by **David Schron** » Thu, 15 Apr 1993 01:31:07

I was just contacted by a potential client who has purchased a product
called SMART by Informix. Can anyone give me a quick brush up on what
SMART is and how it related to the other Informix products?

Thanks!

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by **Butch Stok** » Thu, 15 Apr 1993 23:05:01

Quote:(David Schronce) writes:

|>I was just contacted by a potential client who has purchased a product
|>called SMART by Informix. Can anyone give me a quick brush up on what
|>SMART is and how it related to the other Informix products?
|>
|>Thanks!
|>
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|>| J. David Schronce - SysAdmin - Cascade Fibers Co - Voice 919/774-6331 |

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|>|Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.|
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Now I've heard of STORM and I hope to be beta testing this. According
to my knowlage I've never heard of such a product. I second the motion
for information.

by **Walt Hultgren {rm** » Fri, 16 Apr 1993 02:20:51

In article <david01022930313123...@schronce.uucp> David Schronce writes:
>Can anyone give me a quick brush up on what
>SMART is and how it related to the other Informix products?

The following two files may be of some interest. Note that they are somewhat
dated.

The first is a listing of SmartWare BBS systems that was pulled off of one
of those systems. I'm not sure how the second one got here, though it does
say it's from Informix.

Good luck,

Walt.

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Informix/SmartWare BBS's

Last Updated: March 26, 1991

This is a list of BBS's that specialize in topics and files related to
SmartWare. They have also started to include conferences for Informix-4GL and
Unix in general.

Some of these boards "echo" the messages in selected conferences among each
other, so that each BBS carries the traffic from all boards. The main BBS is
run by Informix in Kansas by the group who support SmartWare. This support
group can be addressed from any of the linked boards.

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BBS NAME CODE NUMBER

BOEING AIRCRAFT USERS GROUP M 1-206-235-9496
BECS Tandy OPUS E 1-206-524-5618
AESC BBS H1 1-404-381-1947
AESC BBS R3 1-404-564-1256
ATHENS FORUM EH3 1-404-546-7858
NAME UNKNOWN F 1-405-248-4156
PRO-PC, BLUE CROSS/BLUE SHIELD R2 1-412-391-1970
COMPUTER TYME E 1-417-866-1665
FOG-LINE E 1-515-964-7937
BI-TECH 1-516-567-8267
ESN News/Capital Bureau R4 1-518-283-4855
HONEYWELL IRC R2 1-612-870-6400
OLD FOLKS HOME E 1-615-265-2629
FIRENET LEADER E 1-719-592-7415
SOUND ADVICE - 9 NODES R3H2 1-816-436-4516
SOUND ADVICE - HAYES V SERIES ONLY R3H4 1-816-436-8029
JOHNSON CNTY COLL 1-913-469-4401
INFORMIX SOFTWARE - HOME OF SMARTWARE - 2 NODES R1 1-913-492-2089
ELECTRONIC COMMUNITY BBS 1-913-829-1256
MCC BBS S 1-915-728-5769

INTERNATIONAL:

CENTRAL OPUS UK E1 44-21-711-1451
SMUG BBS UK R2 44-22-346-0484
SMART UK BBS H5 44-01-751-0141

NUMBER OF BOARDS: 21

CODE MEANINGS:
R1 - RESTRICED ACCESS, REGISTERED SMARTWARE OWNERS ONLY - VERIFIED
R2 - RESTRICED ACCESS, PRIVATE BOARD, SPECIAL REGISTRATION REQUIRED
R3 - RESTRICED ACCESS, SUBSCRIPTION $ REQUIRED
R4 - RESTRICED ACCESS, REGISTRATION VIA MAIL
E - MEMBER OF NATION FIDO ECHOMAIL
E1 - MEMBER OF UNITED KINGDOM FIDO ECHOMAIL
F - FILES ONLY NO SMART MESSAGE AREA
H1 - 9600 BAUD EVI/FASTCOM MODEM
H2 - 9600 BAUD US ROBOTICS
H3 - 9600 BAUD TRAILBLAZER
H4 - 9600 BADU HAYES V SERIES
H5 - 300/1200 BAUD ONLY
M - MESSAGE BASE ONLY
S - NATIONAL ELECTRONIC SMUG HEADQUARTERS - FORMING

THIS LIST IS COMPILED AND PUBLISHED BY MIKE SABOT - SYSOP AESC BBS
IF YOU WISH YOUR BBS ADDED TO THE ABOVE LIST, EITHER LEAVE A MESSAGE
ON THE NATIONAL SMART ECHO MAIL, MCC BBS, INFORMIX BBS OR AESC BBS TO
MY ATTENTION. IT WILL BE ADDED ON THE NEXT REVISION.

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Date: Mon, 24 Feb 92 13:27:51 CST
From: (Elaine Mills @ Informix)

The following is a list of current SmartWare and Wingz Authorized Training
Centers throughout the US and Canada. Please note that Electronic Office
Systems of Independence, MO and Online Consulting, Inc. of Wilmington, DE
have just joined our list of of Wingz ATCs.

Company Product

CALIFORNIA

New Horizons Computer Lng Ctr Wingz
1231 East Dyer, # 140
Santa Ana CA 92705
Edward E. Heyer
(714) 556-1220

COLORADO

Access Data Consulting, Inc. Wingz
3801 E. Florida, Ste 400
Denver, CO 80210
Ron Kieser
(303) 691-0355

DELAWARE

Online Consulting, Inc. Wingz
913 Market St. Mall
Wilmington, DE 19801
Bonnie Dasher-Anderson
(302) 658-3018

INDIANA

Graham MicroAge Wingz
133 South Pennsylvania
Indianapolis, IN 46204
Royce Bourne (for text book information - Al Thompson)
(317) 634-8202

IOWA

Iowa Electronics Smart
610 32nd Avenue, SW
Cedar Rapids, IA 52404
Joan Ryan
(319) 362-2448

KANSAS

MacSource Wingz
9083 Metcalf Avenue
Overland Park KS 66212
Brent Flanders/Jeff Sigler Watson
(913) 383-3111

Omni Consultants, Inc. Smart
8700 Monrovia Ste 222
Lenexa KS 66215
Robert McCoy
(913) 888-1515

MICHIGAN

Data Planners, Inc. Smart
21819 W. Nine Mile Road Ste. 143
Southfield MI 48075
Joanne Valsaic
(313) 353-0740

MINNESOTA

Data Managers Consulting, Inc. Smart
23 Empire Drive
St Paul, MN 55103
Diane MacMullan
(612) 223-8310

MISSOURI

Electronic Office Systems, Inc. Wingz
3855 South Northern
Independence, MO 64052
David R. Poore
(816) 358-7020

NEW YORK

Tiger Temps, Inc Wingz
84 William Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10038
Nigel Eddis
(212) 425-2222

TEXAS

Motorola, Inc. (Corporate ATC) Wingz
1701 Valley View Lane
Farmers Branch, TX 75325
Toni McTygue
(214) 888-2147

CANADA

Earle Associate Training/Consulting Smart
3008 58th Avenue
Lloydminister, SK/AB S9V1E9
Gord Earle
(403) 875-3190

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by **David Nei** » Fri, 16 Apr 1993 02:36:32

Quote:(David Schronce) writes:
>I was just contacted by a potential client who has purchased a product
>called SMART by Informix. Can anyone give me a quick brush up on what
>SMART is and how it related to the other Informix products?

>Thanks!

SMART is (or was) an integrated package including word-processor,
spreadsheet, and database manager. I say "was" because the last time
I saw this package was on a 3b1. It (SMART, not the 3b1) may very
well still be in production. I assume it has gone through several
upgrades, since I saw it.

The database manager was very Informix-like, if it wasn't Informix.
Spreadsheet was so-so, but if they've plugged in Wingz, it would be
much-improved. I was equally non-impressed by the word-processor,
but remember, I'm talking about ~1985 software on a 3b1.

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David Neill MGR - SYS ADM Oklahoma Service Center

by **Jerry Luk** » Fri, 16 Apr 1993 02:20:18

Informix created the integrated package "SMART", which include:
Database, Spreadsheet with graphic capability, Wordprocessor, and
Communication. The latest version for DOS was 3.1. After that
Informix changed the name to SMARTWARE, current version is 1.5.
There was also UNIX and XENIX wersions of the SMART, but Informix
drop them.
We are using SMARTWARE and I like it. The Database is
very good. The wordprocessor is the best tool to edit and sort text
in columns.
Jerry Lukes CP Rail Signals and Communications
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by **David Cobu** » Fri, 16 Apr 1993 04:24:38

>Now I've heard of STORM and I hope to be beta testing this. According
>to my knowlage I've never heard of such a product. I second the motion
>for information.

OK, here it is.

"Smart" (and it's later version SmartWare II) were products developed by
Innovative Software, Inc. It ran on MS-DOS and a limited number of Unix
platforms, and consisted of an integrated DBMS, spreadsheet, word processor
and communications module, all linked by a main menu. Smart continued to
be marketed by Informix for a short while after the merger.

Currently Smart is supported and marketed by CS Computing Services, Inc. of
Toronto, Canada. (the press release announced that CSC was renaming itself
to ANGOSS Software Corp in February.)

Informix Software, Inc. ...uunet!infmx!coburn
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by **gatech!uunet.uu.net!microc!e..** » Fri, 16 Apr 1993 23:48:07

Quote:>From: uunet!hpspkpa.spk.hp.com!stokes (Butch Stokes)
>Subject: Re: SMART by Informix??
>Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1993 14:05:01 GMT
>Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

SmartWare II is an Informix product as well as Wingz is.
Informix bought Innovative Software to get Wingz, and they also got SMART...
SmartWare only runs on PCs and includes spreadsheet, database, wordpr, comm
BTW is very good.