Fulcrum Technologies Inc, Ottawa, Canada has unveiled SearchTools, a suite of SQL-based query tools that allow corporate developers, working in client-server environments, to access text retrieval applications via SQL. The core component of SearchTools is an application programming interface based on the SQL Access Group’s Call Level Interface specification, which enables users working in Microsoft Corp’s Visual Basic, Windows or C to interrogate Sybase, Informix and Oracle databases and other third party applications generators for document intensive data. SearchTools works on a variety of operating systems including OS/2, AIX, HP-UX and Solaris 2.1. Support for Microsoft Corp’s Windows NT and Open Data Base Connectivity specification will be added later this year. Future product enhancements will include support for the Standardised Generalised Markup Language, the International Standards Organisation’s SQL3 specifications and the Object Management Group’s Object Request Broker, the company says. SearchTools 1.0 is available now and is priced at $11,250 – UKP7,260 – per copy.
