German Unix house iXOS Software GmbH, Munich, is to show a new icon-based query tool which it claims will enable non-programmers to manipulate relational databases under Unix. The iXView/SQL query generator, implemented under OSF/Motif, represents databases graphically, and is already in use at the German federal government. It costs $1,000 for single-user licence – $7,000 for a 10-user network package – and is available for IBM AIX, Sun Sparc and Intel iAPX-86 environments running Unix System V.4 and Santa Cruz V.3.2. iXView/SQL requires 8Mb RAM, 10Mb free disk space, X Window 11.3 or higher and Motif, and currently supports the Oracle and Informix databases, with other versions to follow.
