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From: paulb@techbook.com (Paul Buder)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Pick operating system
Message-ID: <1990Sep6.055815.16617@techbook.com>
Date: 6 Sep 90 05:58:15 GMT
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I work for a company which is considering using the Pick Operating System
to keep track of a 500,000 item inventory.   Indexing needs to be done on 
several fields per item.  Additionally each item has to be indexable both
globally, and within its group; there are about 100 groups, and each item
falls into one or more groups.

Does anyone have experience with PICK?  Does it have any major advantages
over UNIX with some form of database management interface?  If not, what
UNIX products would you suggest to build an application? (with C language??)

I am a C programmer in the DOS world.  I haven't had experience with 
extensive db management systems, only simple btree libraries with a dozen 
functions for adding, reading and deleting keys.  Nor have I worked in a
multiuser environment so am not sure how to be more specific, but any help
is appreciated.
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