Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!munnari.oz.au!manuel!ccadfa!ghm From: ghm@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au (Geoff Miller) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: Anyone in the PICK world listening? Keywords: pick Ultix Universe Message-ID: <2406@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au> Date: 26 May 91 23:45:42 GMT References: <442@hbiso.ma02.bull.com> <2401@ccadfa.adfa.oz.au> <762@adpplz.UUCP> Organization: Computer Centre, University College, UNSW, ADFA, Canberra, Australia Lines: 23 martin@adpplz.UUCP (Martin Golding) writes: >Pick discussion groups fail more often than restaurants, because there >isn't anything to _say_. Anybody with the computer skills of a turnip >can use the system to nearly its full potential. Other groups work >because lots of people have lots of confusion and the experts get the >pride and satisfaction of being helpful.... Perhaps you need *slightly* more skill than a turnip to use the system to its full potential, but certainly it is very easy even for inexperienced users to become productive in a Pick environment -- perhaps I should say especially easy for inexperienced users since they don't have to unlearn things. I don't see any problem with keeping Pick discussions within comp.databases, though. Certainly I have found it instructive to look at the problems posed by users of other products and -- in some cases -- see how easily they can be solved within Pick. Maybe we can convince a few of these poor deluded souls who actually _believe_ the marketing hype of the RDBMS salesmen. Geoff Miller (ghm@cc.adfa.oz.au) Computer Centre, Australian Defence Force Academy