IQ Software Inc, formerly Programmed Intelligence Corp, will be showing pre-release version of its IQ Access end-user software at UniForum. Built on an ad hoc query architecture, it retrieves data from corporate repositories, transferring it directly to desktop applications. It is said to access and retrieve across over 60 databases and ISAM file systems, supporting Unix, VMS, MS-DOS, OS/2, AOS and over 35 systems. SQL databases supported include Oracle, Informix, Progress, Ingres and Sybase as well as high-level languages including Cobols. IQ Access will be sold direct and via third parties at from $500 to $25,000 depending on the system used. It will be available in both host- and SQL-based client-only version from March. In the third quarter IQ will introduce MS-DOS character and graphical user interface client-server versions for both SQL and non-SQL file structures.
