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From: todd@uvmark.uucp (Todd Cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Anyone in the PICK world listening?
Message-ID: <1991May24.213020.42588@uvmark.uucp>
Date: 24 May 91 21:30:20 GMT
References: <1991May24.032325.17880@morrow.stanford.edu>
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Organization: Vmark Software, Inc.
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In article <1991May24.032325.17880@morrow.stanford.edu> AR.HFN@forsythe.stanford.edu (Hooshyar Naraghi) writes:
>In article <bsms.675021447@hippo>,
>bsms@hippo.ru.ac.za (Malcolm Sainsbury) writes:
>>>tba@hbiso.ma02.bull.com (Todd Aubin ) writes:
>>
>>>Just spotted this group.
>>>Has their ever been activity here concerning the use of
>>>PICK (specifically PICK-on-UNIX like the Ultimate Ult/IX
>>>product, the V-Mark Universe Product, etc., etc.)
>>
>
>I can't help it but answer this one.  We implemented the V-mark
>Universe on top of a Unix box (HP9000, 835 series, risc arch.) here
>at the university.  We then used one of the exisiting Work Order
>Management applications from an outlet called TSW in Atlanta, Ga for
>our maintenance operation.
>
>I am myself from the RDBMS world, so I had to study Pick to
>understand its underlaying principles.  The system was commissioned
>over one year ago and has been stable since then.  Vmark has done a
>good job (above average) to port Unix to Unix land.  I understand
>they run on many Unix boxes from the SCO Unix on 386's to IBM 6000.
>
Thank you!

Maybe if there is enough interest we could get a PICK newgroup going.
I am sure we could find a moderator here at Vmark if the net were interested.
(or I am sure one of our users would be interested.)
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