Everyone wants to embrace Apple Computer Inc Macintoshes into their networks these days, and following the company’s decision to implement IBM Corp’s new Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking schema, Novell Inc, Tandem Computers Inc and Data General Corp are all signing for Apple source code to integrate their products with the Mac. Novell is licensing the source code to Apple’s Data Access Language to develop a version of the language that enables Mac users to access the network database services of NetWare SQL. Tandem Computers Inc is taking AppleTalk source code as part of its new Tandem Data Access Language Server, which will enable Mac users to access the Tandem NonStop SQL relational database. The Server uses AppleTalk protocols running over an Ethernet, runs on all NonStop computers and is available in the second quarter at $190 on the NonStop CLX. And Apple has signed up Blyth Software Inc, Foster City, California to convert, develop, distribute and support the Apple Data Access Language client software on MS-DOS and Unix desktop computers. Blyth will offer the toolkit to developers to write desktop applications and will also incorporate Access Language links into future releases of its Omnis 5 database application development environment. Blyth plans to release toolkits for MS-DOS, Windows 3.0 and OS/2. Both Apple and Blyth will market Apple’s server-side systems – Apple servers are currently available for IBM DB2 and SQL/DS, Digital Equipment Corp’s Rdb, Sybase, Informix, Ingres and other database managers.
