Não sei se estou correto, ainda nem aprendi a trabalhar com o manifold, mas a será que a Enterprise Edition não seria o que vc está precisando.

Abaixo segue um trecho do Help

 

 

Enterprise Edition Features

 

Integrated Debugger - Enterprise Edition includes the Manifold debugging system for scripting. The debugger that is bundled within Enterprise Edition may be optionally purchased as an extension for Professional Edition. The debugger enables debugging commands as well as the Call Stack, Variables and Watches panes.

 

Export to .e00 Format - Enterprise Edition allows export to ESRI .e00 format as well as to the export formats for drawings supported by Professional Edition (ESRI .shp, MapInfo .mid/.mif, Manifold 4.50, AutoCAD .dxf and US Federal SDTS format).

 

Storage in Centralized DBMS - Enterprise Edition can store any Manifold component within a database, called an Enterprise server, hosted by an ODBC compliant database management system such as IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, and Oracle. DB2, SQL Server and Oracle are officially supported while many other DBMS systems, such as MySQL have been tested and are known to work but are not officially supported.

 

Multi-user Coordination - Enterprise Edition enforces access control and controlled editing of shared components so that many users at once can use the same components. Edits can be made using an easily understood "check out" procedure so that simultaneous, incompatible edits cannot be made. Users can continue using shared components even when someone else has checked them out for editing.

 

Use One Component in Many Projects - A single copy of a component like a drawing or image can be used in hundreds of projects, but only a single copy need be kept within the Enterprise server. This saves disk space when the same component is frequently used in many different projects.

 

SQL Server Desktop Engine - The Manifold CD includes a complete installation package for Microsoft's SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine, the same engine that powers SQL Server. Installing Desktop Engine allows high performance, centralized DBMS storage via Enterprise servers using SQL Server capabilities without any additional purchase required. See the SQL Server Desktop Engine topic for more.

 

Centralized storage allows multi-user use of common components so different users can simultaneously use the same component within their projects. For example, many users in a town's GIS department can use a base map drawing of a town within their projects. Another benefit to storage of components within an Enterprise server, in addition to the multi-user access thus provided, is the ability to share a single copy of a component within many different projects.

 

For example, if the same drawing of Europe or the US is frequently re-used as a background layer in a map we can share that drawing into an Enterprise server and then get it whenever needed. Only one copy of the drawing will be maintained, the copy within the Enterprise server. If a drawing or other component (such as an image) is used in hundreds of different projects we will see considerable savings in disk space.