Fulcrum Technologies Inc, Ottawa, Canada reckons that it has the industry’s first suite of SQL-based tools that enable corporate information professionals to access text information and make it available throughout an organisation for use as a strategic resource: Fulcrum says SearchTools offer the first means by which corporate developers, working within an open client-server environment, can build text-retrieval applications for accessing large text applications and give them a way to integrate text-intensive data into existing corporate information management, image or database systems; the tools feature an applications programming interface based on the SQL Access Group’s Call Level Interface; the tools will initially be available for Microsoft Corp Visual Basic and Windows developers, as well as for C developers working in other environments, such as OS/2 and Unix; initial Unix support will be under AIX/6000, HP-UX and Solaris; the SearchTools development kit starts at $7,500 per copy and the indexing and retrieval component, SearchServer, will be from $1,000 per user.
