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From: jdm1@eds1.UUCP (Jon McCown)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: PICK, UniVerse, Unix and what-have you (info request)
Keywords: PICK UNIX
Message-ID: <605@eds1.UUCP>
Date: 22 Sep 90 22:00:17 GMT
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Organization: EDS - Senate of Pennsylvania
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I have been encountering more than the usual (low number) references to
PICK of late, and more specifically 'guest' environments (such as UniVerse)
which allow PICK to run as a guest under Unices.

Specifically my questions are:
	1-	How usable, stable, maintainable and scalable is PICK
		(generally) and what (if anything) changes when a non-
		native (such as Pick under Unix) implementation is used.

	2-	What vendors would you/would you not recommend for PICK
		and (can be general) reasons for recommendation.

	3-	Where can a small (cheap?) Pick environment be gotten
		for experimentation and testing? (Can be PC type for testing)

I have been reading Pick-World and a couple of texts on the system  
(describing Pick in 'glowingly lovely detail'), but what I really want
to know is if you now use/maintain a Pick system-- would you do it over?

Mail responses are welcome, postings are fine as well. Vendors beware.

- Jon McCown

(if this turns into a mail deluge, I will summarize)

-- 
             J.D. McCown - RCSG Director - Senate of Pennsylvania  
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