What is Omnis Studio 3.0.1?

Omnis Studio is one of the oldest Macintosh database tools, first ported to the Mac in 1987.

Over the years, it has developed into a blisteringly complex application development environment that offers tremendous power at a relatively low cost.

Don’t be confused by the RAD (rapid application development) moniker. Omnis “applications” can sport interfaces as intricate as those you created in a compiler-based RAD, they can access databases (with the Enterprise Edition), and they can even create complex database-driven Web sites (with the Web Edition). However, Omnis-based apps are simply files. To distribute them, you need a run-time application licensed at cost from Raining Data.

Omnis was designed long before the now-fashionable idea that databases should be easy to create. Its interface is one of the most confusing we’ve seen — each window has its own menu bar, every interface element has dozens of properties, and each component you add sprouts Its own windows for configuration.

Although the interface makes the learning curve more of a learning cliff, it’s worth climbing if you need to deploy a database-based application across an entire corporation, interface with professional databases, or build a complex Web-based front end to your database.
For smaller jobs, stick to REALbasic.

Sammis, Ian. (April 2001). Omnis Studio 3.0. MacAddict. (pg. 60).

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Architecture

IBM PowerPC

System Requirements

From Mac OS 8.6

Compatibility notes

Emulating this? It could probably run under: SheepShaver