Lingo Computer Design Inc is now shipping Fiscal-64, a 64-bit relational on-line analytical processing (ROLAP) engine for DEC Alpha and Silicon Graphics Inc Challenge servers running Oracle. It’s got Informix, Sybase and Sun versions in hand. Fiscal provides data warehousing and ROLAP to users with complex query and report needs. Lingo claims the 32-bit version of Fiscal is installed at 170 server sites, but the company expects its 64-bit product to account for 50% of its business next year and 90% in 1998. Toronto, Ontario-based Lingo differentiates itself from ROLAP rivals such as Information Advantage and Micro Strategy claiming it focuses on
customers which want day to day, hour to hour query and report capability. It says the competition has to set up query functions to run overnight, reporting the next day. The nine-year-old privately-held company, which has 50 employees, has watched OLAP companies such as Arbor Software Corp go public and Holistic Systems Ltd get bought (by Seagate Technology Inc), but wants to remain solo for now. ROLAP technology is so new that the entrepreneurial spirit is still important to it, Chookolingo said. $85,000 buys a 25-user Fiscal license.
