IT-Map International of Wheeling, Ill., launched its dbPAL toolkit at the Borland Conference in Long Beach, Calif. The dbPAL technology provides a suite of tools linked by a user interface that uses a drag-and-drop, icon-based approach instead of having to write SQL scripts, IT-Map said.
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