I can remember seeing Dan McKenzie and Rudy Wolfs demonstrate a pre-release version at Dan’s cottage. They sure were excited about it! Less than a year later I was working with them too. Sure seems like a long time ago.

 

Dave Shelley

 

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From: Steve Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 11:09 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: A long time ago in a country far far away ...

 

I missed that by a few months, having joined EveryWare later in 1995 (November) when I became the first 'official' support person for Tango. However I do remember meeting Mark and Greg Hemstreet at a Toronto Mac Users Group meeting when they did a demo of either a late ButlerLink/Web or an early Tango. I had been playing around with Butler and the FirstClass connectivity that had been available a year or two earlier. It's only problem was that we could search Butler from FirstClass, we could create new records from FirstClass, but we couldn't modify records from FirstClass and they never did get that working. Tango came along and it wasn't really needed as much.

 

Brings back a lot of great memories, including shrinkwrapping the original release of Tango for FileMaker. I do have a set of floppies around someplace with the Butler install that came with Tango 1.0.

 

Steve Smith

 

Oakbridge Information Solutions

Office: (519) 624-4388

Fax:    (519) 624-3353

Email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Web:    http://www.oakbridge.ca

 

 

On May 31, 2005, at 8:08 PM, Phil Wade wrote:



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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