July 1995 / News & Views

RADical Databases VISUAL WINDOWS DATABASES AT A GLANCE Class Designer Simplifies Class Distinctions	The latest version of Microsoft's FoxPro confirms that Windows databases must compete with each other as well as with rapid application development tools. - by Rick Dobson (Michael Levy and Dave Andrews also contributed to this story)
Notebook Hard Drives Hold More Integral Glides into 1 GB	Hard drive manufacturers are using several technologies to satisfy the demands of notebook users who want smaller, lighter, more powerful machines. - by Dave Andrews
Apple's Tsunami: PCI Power POWER MAC 9500 AT A GLANCE POWER MAC 9500 PERFORMANCE RESULTS Tsunami Brings Tidal Wave of Computing Power	Apple will release a PowerPC-based notebook and other systems, including the top-of-the-line Power Mac 9500 (code-named Tsunami) this summer. - by Tom Thompson
Notes Meets the Internet	New products and services that link Lotus Notes to the Internet are expanding the uses of Lotus's groupware platform. - by Dave Andrews
Whatever Happened To...	Microsoft At Work? - by Nick Baran
Oracle Releases 64-Bit Database Bullet What 64-Bits Buys	When running large database applications, mainframe computers have traditionally offered impressive performance advantages over their client/server counterparts. - by Salvatore Salamone
Network and Windows 95 Take Top BYTE Awards	The next version of Windows and a high-speed network took top honors as BYTE editors at spring Comdex recognized innovative products that will impact the industry.
Best Of Comdex Finalists	Systems: The TDZ-60 graphics workstation from Intergraph Computer Systems (Huntsville, AL, (800) 345-4856 or (205) 730-2000; fax, (205) 730-8300) can support up to six 100-MHz Pentiums and a selection of high-end 3-D accelerators.
64 Bits of BASIC XBasic Accessory Goes with Everything	Years ago, as the C programming language gained momentum on microcomputers, I'd have sworn that BASIC would be swept aside. - by Rick Grehan
One Step Back for Integration	The inability of major network management platform vendors to agree on a common API and database schema has dealt a setback to the Management Information Consortium's efforts to resolve network management integration and incompatibility issues. - by Paul Korzeniowski
6X Yields Better Software MPEG and Networking Six Times Faster	Quad-speed CD-ROM drives are the industry standard, but a new crop of six-speed CD-ROM drives with 900-Kbps data transfer rates should appeal to multimedia aficionados and network managers who want improved performance from their CD-ROM jukebox towers. - by Michael Nadeau
DMA Promotes Information Anywhere DMA GOALS	Two groups that sought to separately define industry specifications for version control, security, and other document services have joined to create the DMA (Document Management Alliance) and expect to release their first specifications this month. - by Gordon E.J. Hoke

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