IBM PROPOSES A BETTER MARRIAGE BETWEEN PCs AND MAINFRAMES.

The article reports on the decision of International Business Machines (IBM) to market Sterling Software Inc.'s micro-to-machine-mainframe program dBase/Answer. The software has been designed to allow an untrained employee to retrieve corporate data from a mainframe without relying on a data processing expert for help. The marketing strategy is expected to help IBM increase sales of personal computers to customers.