EveryWare Development Corp, June 1995: ButlerLink/Web 1.0.2 was
released as part of the Butler DB suite. It appeared in the Butler
suite of tools a few months earlier but we have no record of the
official release of 1.0.0. The earliest record of ButlerLink we know
of was a demonstration of it at the first WebEdge in Austin on April
2-4, 1995 by Henry Lach and Mark Wickens. It was billed as the "most
accessible database" as you could access it with newtons, WebStar, and
XCMDs (HyperCard). Butlerlink/Web was an access tool that provided
very simple input, searching, and output modules. The review from
WebEdge was "The demos worked as advertised, but once created, files
made with the Butlerlink/Web can only be edited by text editors and not
the Butlerlink/Web itself".
It was one of the first commercial web/database connectivity suite for
the internet.
Here is the marketing hype from back then...
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ButlerLink Web 1.02 - ButlerLink/Web is a powerful, yet easy-to-use
tool for allowing your WebSTAR server's users to access Butler SQL
databases. With ButlerLink/Web you can create pages that let users
search, modify, add, and delete database records. The two main parts of
ButlerLink/Web are the Form Maker and the CGI. The Form Maker is used
to create the database access pages. The CGI interprets these pages and
the Web user's criteria, queries the Butler SQL server, and returns
formatted results. You don't need to write or know any SQL or HTML.
ButlerLink/Web does it all for you. It's never been so easy to put
databases at the fingertips of 35 million internet users!
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And finally this is a message that accompanied the official
announcement of
ButlerLink/Web 1.0.2 10 years ago (we are not sure of the exact date in
June).
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EveryWare Development Corp.
Please Note: Until early July we are running one 28k modem for our Web
site.
Please be patient when accessing our pages! ButlerLink/Web 1.0.2 has
been officially released! All you need is Butler SQL, along with a
WebSTAR Web server from StarNine Technologies Inc. , and you'll be in
Web database heaven.
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