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Can anybody provide me with a list of Mac applications which
support access to databases residing on a DAL server?  

I know 4D supports them but I was burned so badly on 4D 1.0 that I really
don't want to do business with Acius. 

Does Filemaker Pro support DAL access?

We will be experimenting with a beta version of the Deltek accounting system
with the Deltek Database Link.  The bean counters at the other end of the
building have been using a production PC LAN based Deltek system for a
couple of years now.  They are not willing to undergo the trauma of converting
to a different accounting system.

The Database Link product moves their data files into a Novell Btrieve 
environment and provides a Netware SQL data dictionary.  Novell's Netware 
SQL product includes a DAL server enabling access to this data from 
Macintosh clients.  

One of the goals of this exercise is to integrate a project control system
with the accounting system.  MacProject is one of the candidates.  How
difficult is it to get data into a MacProject system.  It would be ideal
if we could just create a data dictionary with appropriate views to support
MacProject based on the Deltek data dictionary and be done with it.  But
I suspect that someone is going to have to remember to invoke the right
incantations to export and import data at the right time.  


Thanks,
Drew Einhorn
einhorn_d@apsicc.aps.edu