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From: prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Pick operating system
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Date: 13 Sep 90 08:55:22 GMT
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In a recent article mark@motown.altair.fr (Mark James) writes:

>Probably because Pick doesn't cater for TCP/IP (that I know of, anyway).

But Pick-alike products like UniVerse do. UniVerse even implements a
client-server database with UniVerse/Net.

>Products like UniVerse that try to combine Pick data management with
>Unix features tend only to marry the efficiency of Unix with the
>convenience of Pick -- the worst of both worlds.

The last time I checked, no Pick system has won a benchmark over
an Encore Multimax running UNIX System V and UniVerse. This is
not to say that Oracle TPO, Informix Turbo or Ingres on the
same hardware may be even more efficcient.

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