tkt8763-01: Free Tango Redux

["Mark Benno" <benno@tenet.edu>]

Sorry about the previous Tango message. I forgot to paste the critical
portion of the message. In case you missed it, Tango is a great program for
creating FileMaker CGI forms for the Web.
Mark Benno
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Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 02:07:34 -0800
From: The EvangeList Mailing List <evangelist@apple.com>
Subject: PR - You Can Tango For Free

This announcement is from:

Greg Meece <mailto:gmeece@pervasive.com>

Attention Evangelistas! Now you can make a formerly PC-only company 
sit up and notice Mac users, plus get an incredible Web/database 
integration tool for FREE!

Pervasive Software, Inc. (my employer) recently purchased a Canadian 
company called Everyware Development. Everyware started out as a 
Mac-only company, with their flagship product called "Tango". Tango 
is a CGI/Plugin development environment for tying databases to the 
web so you can create dynamic web pages on the fly. If you've ever 
logged onto a site and typed in a query (finding specific types of 
products, or names of people, or whatever), then you've used this 
type of technology. In fact, because Tango is available on Windows, 
Macintosh, and several flavors of Unix, it's likely you've visited a 
site which operates with Tango (including many Mac-based/oriented 
sites).

Pervasive has historically been a PC-only company, and was formerly a 
part of Novell. With the acquisition of Everyware, Pervasive now has 
a solid Mac product. In order to get as many people excited about 
Tango, they are - for a limited time - giving Tango away. You can 
either download the product or order the CD. The download is close to 
60 Mb, so unless you've got a high-speed connection, you may want to 
order the CD.

On a personal note, this is the first job I've held in 11 years where 
I didn't work on a Mac to some degree. I'd like to send a clear 
message to Pervasive that not only are Mac users savvy and active on 
the internet, but continue to demand world-class products for the Mac 
platform as well. They are tracking the response for each platform, 
so I'd like to surprise them with the Mac numbers! I'm not a 
marketing/sales person - just a Quality Engineer excited about this 
product.

If you don't believe you'll ever have use for a product like Tango, 
don't just download or order the CD just to boost the numbers. But, 
if you are serious about deploying a web-based database application 
on the internet or your intranet (or think you might be), check out 
Tango and then go for it.

You can click on the "Download Tango Free" icon on Pervasive's web 
site: <http://www.pervasive.com/> If you'd like to know a bit more 
about the product before you order/download, go to: 
<http://tango.pervasive.com/products/tango/webjump/Page.taf?page=Produ 
ct> I should let everyone know that the "catch" to all this is simply 
that Pervasive will have your name, e-mail, etc. for their internal 
marketing purposes. They will NOT sell your name to anyone else, 
however.

To paraphrase Guy, "Kick Hiney, Evangelistas!" ;-)
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