Borland International Inc and its Ansa Software acquisition have revealed plans to do versions of the Paradox database system for MS-OS/2 and Unix operating environments and for 80386 hardware, and promises 100% compatibility with applications developed under Paradox 2.0 for MS-DOS.Ansa is also going after big IBM users with the promise of a Paradox product that will enable users to access SQL-stored data directly from within Paradox – without the need to know SQL commands. The intention is that a workgroup should be able to run a networked Paradox information mangement system, sharing database files and applications across a variety of 80286- and 80386-based machines, MS-DOS and OS/2 environments. Paradox for 386 machines will break the 640Kb memory barrier, increasing linear address space to 16Mb by embedding the 386/DOS Extender from Pharlap Software, making it up to five times faster than 2.0 on a 386 machine; it will also exploit the full 386 instruction set. It will be out in the fourth quarter, and Paradox for OS/2 will ship concurrently with OS/2, and a Unix version will ship in mid-1988. Versions for Microsoft Windows and the IBM Presentation Manager graphical user interfaces are also planned. Borland’s Turbo C and Turbo Pascal languages will include interfaces to Paradox querying, sorting and indexing components so that they can be used from within C and Pascal programs.
