And the winner is -- English Wizard; Microsoft Access and Visual Basic users choose English Wizard.LITTLETON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 24, 1996--In a unique demonstration of support and preference, Microsoft Access A database program for Windows, available separately or included in the Microsoft Office suite. Access is programmable using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA). Access can read Paradox, dBASE and Btrieve files, and using ODBC, Microsoft SQL Server, SYBASE SQL Server and Oracle data. and Visual Basic users have selected English Wizard A natural language query program from EasyAsk, a division of Progress Software, Bedford, MA (www.easyask.com), that can access any SQL-based database. It was authored by Dr. Larry Harris, founder of EasyAsk, and a long-time expert in database systems and computerized natural language. as a preferred tool. English Wizard is a multiple winner in the 1996 Readers' Choice Awards voted by the readers of Access/Visual Basic Advisor Magazine as they selected English Wizard: -- Best Function/Class Library Product -- one of Best End-User Add-On Products and honors them with an honorable mention in this category It is highly unusual for any product to be the winner in two categories. The Readers' Choice Awards are a coveted cov·et v. cov·et·ed, cov·et·ing, cov·ets v.tr. 1. To feel blameworthy desire for (that which is another's). See Synonyms at envy. 2. To wish for longingly. See Synonyms at desire. prize; they honor an exciting collection of developer's tools that cover all phases of product development, from design and implementation libraries to documentation and debugging (programming) debugging - The process of attempting to determine the cause of the symptoms of malfunctions in a program or other system. These symptoms may be detected during testing or use by real users. tools. Included are products designed for Microsoft Access versions 2.0 and 7.0 and Microsoft Visual Basic versions 3.0 and 4.0. Today, developers working with Access and Visual Basic are enjoying the benefits of mature add-on products with richer feature sets and better documentation than ever before. Recognizing that a developer's tool kit is not complete until they have a full complement of the best available products for Access and Visual Basic, the Advisor Publications surveyed, in an unusual open-ended survey, the best products on the market. In this way, users were not prompted by product or company names, but an open-ended blank ballot was provided. Access/Visual Basic Advisor Magazine is read by more than 49,000 IT professionals. The Reader's Choice Awards are unique in that the awardees are selected by the readers and their peers. The products which won have withstood the true test of mature add-on products: they've been successfully used to build real applications by real developers. The achievements of English Wizard and its creator, Linguistic Technology, are impressive. Plain English Plain English (sometimes known, more broadly, as plain language) is a communication style that focuses on considering the audience's needs when writing. It recommends avoiding unnecessary words and avoiding jargon, technical terms, and long and ambiguous sentences. database querying from Linguistic Technology is an innovative software solution that enables users to more quickly and more thoroughly realize the business value of their information. English Wizard software from Linguistic Technology lets users ask free-form conversational English questions of databases running anywhere on a network or on the Internet while performing the necessary SQL SQL in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. translations behind the scenes. English Wizard software provides powerful database access for an infinite range of queries using plain English language questions. For example, a user querying an insurance company's data warehouse can ask, "Who had more than $100,000 in claims last year?" English Wizard's software automatically performs the translation to SQL and the data is quickly retrieved for display or reporting purposes. Founded by Dr. Larry Harris
Larry Harris is currently the General Manager of the Milwaukee Bucks. He is the son of former National Basketball Association (NBA) coach, and current Dallas Mavericks Assistant Coach Del , Linguistic Technology is the natural language market leader, making man/machine communication easier and ever more productive. While it has been historically difficult, or nearly impossible, to retrieve desired, correct and critical data from databases that were growing exponentially ex·po·nen·tial adj. 1. Of or relating to an exponent. 2. Mathematics a. Containing, involving, or expressed as an exponent. b. , English Wizard has empowered users while shielding them from database intricacies. As a result, for the first time, corporate and private databases can now be accessed by all intelligent users -- not only the savvy technical few -- so that the information contained therein may now provide real competitive advantage for warehouse and datamart applications, and generally improve corporate intelligence as well. -0- Microsoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation (company) Microsoft Corporation - The biggest supplier of operating systems and other software for IBM PC compatibles. Software products include MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Microsoft Access, LAN Manager, MS Client, SQL Server, Open Data Base Connectivity (ODBC), MS Mail, . Access/Visual Basic Advisor and Advisor Publications are registered trademarks of Advisor Publications. English Wizard is a trademark of Linguistic Technology Corporation. CONTACT: Fifth Business,Inc. John Donnelly John W. Donnelly was born September 23 1906 in Iowa. He is a National Senior Games Champion and a gold medal winner in Florida Senior Games State Championships in table tennis. He began playing the game in high school. , 508/620-4712 |
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