Since there have been so many questions on CompuServ about InterBase, I
have included some basic product information.

InterBase has been a product for over 5 years and currently has a customer
base of over 20,000 licenses. It is sold and supported by Borland
International in Scott's Valley California.

Borland's InterBase database product provides and architecture and features
set which best meets the data processing requirements of departmental and
project client/server applications. InterBase's key market segments
include: Engineering and Scientific, Financial Trading, and  Network and
Telecommunications. Key customers include: Bear Sterns, Boston Stock Exchange,
Sprint and Motorola. 

InterBase is distinctive in the client/server marketplace by providing
a set of features which go beyond classic Transaction Processing (OLTP)
capabilities to addressing "real world" complex information processing.
The InterBase feature set is designed to provide the departmental
client/server user with mission critical AND decision support
access to complex, distributed client/server data.

      Advanced Versioning (multiple reads AND writes)- InterBase provides
      an architecture which enables support concurrent high transaction
      updates and decision support data queries. The core of the InterBase
      architecture is designed to support highly advanced data versioning,
      this is called the InterBase multi-generational architecture. This
      architecture ensures data integrity and availability by enabling
      high transactions to always update the database and decision support
      applications can always query the database. The benefit for users is
      high availability, high transaction and data consistency in both a
      mission critical and decision support environments.

      Distributed Data Access - InterBase supports access methods for
      distributed data. Once again, taking client/server to the next
      plateau, InterBase supports client/server across distributed systems.
      This peer-to-peer model enables a system to act as a client, a server
      or both. With a network of InterBase databases each system has access
      to local data and server data with a high degree of data availability,
      data integrity and performance.  This model fits very well into a
      share network environments, where a work group and project shared
      corporate and local information.

      Small Footprint - InterBase has a small footprint in memory usage
      and disk requirements. The install kit requires less than 6Mb of
      disk space and a minimum database is about 125Kb.  A client process
      requires about 250Kb of memory to make an attachment to execute a query.
      
     Complex datatypes - InterBase provides support for advanced datatypes
     including arrays and BLObs. In addition, with BLOb filters, InterBase
     supports intelligent handling of BLOb data.

For more information about InterBase, you may call our 800 line at
1-800-245-7367. In addition, you may find an InterBase fact sheet posted on
CompuServer in { to be determined}.

