MF Systems Ltd, Kensington, London has a new version, 2.2, of its MetaFour fourth generation environment. This latest edition supports C-ISAM, and is compatible with SQL. In fact MetaFour bypasses the SQL engine altogether, linking directly to the database being used – although there are plans in place for communication via SQL. Oracle, Informix, Ingres […]
MF Systems Ltd, Kensington, London has a new version, 2.2, of its MetaFour fourth generation environment. This latest edition supports C-ISAM, and is compatible with SQL. In fact MetaFour bypasses the SQL engine altogether, linking directly to the database being used – although there are plans in place for communication via SQL. Oracle, Informix, Ingres and Unify databases are to be supported at a rate of one a month according to managing director Mark Rogers. MetaFour 2.2 is written in C, and applications developed with it are portable across Unix, Xenix, C-DOS, MS-DOS and networks including Novell Inc’s NetWare. Typically aimed at systems supporting up to 64 users, there are reckoned to be 900 MetaFour systems installed at present. Plans for a VMS version are still being considered, but an OS/2 edition has been dropped due to lack of demand. Prices for Version 2.2 go from around UKP1,000 for a run-time licence, or UKP8,000 for a developer’s copy.
