Menlo Park, California-based, Gupta Technologies Inc, duly announced at SunExpo last week that it is making its MS-DOS-based SQL database server, SQLbase, available on Sun Microsystems Inc’s Sparcstations running Solaris 2.0. Stepping up its commitment to the Unix market, this announcement follows a stream of similar agreements including versions to Novell Inc’s NetWare and Univel Inc for UnixWare. The firm, which claims that it has saturated the personal computer local area network market with its database and peripheral software, aims to provide a front-end client-server-oriented database across all leading desktop systems from the laptop to the file server over the next two years. Gupta says it will be announcing further support for other systems later in the year. Out now, SQLbase for Sparcstations is UKP1,000 for a five-user edition and UKP10,000 for an unlimited user licence.
