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- Submitted-by: abledsoe@sdf.lonestar.org (Al Bledsoe)
-
- >>I know there are books about PICK, but can anyone provide me with some
- >>on-line sources of information, etc. --- such as anonymous-ftp
- >
- >It used to be a complete operating system, in fact. They eventually saw
-
- PICK has been ported to UNIX for awhile now. UniVerse by Vmark and
- Unidata are serious implementations. It is a DBMS that is relational
- but not Codd relational. Read BYTE of May 1992, "Two Steps Forward
- and One Step Back". PICK is similar to MUMPS in that it has existed in
- vertical niche markets. But even though PICK is not ANSI like MUMPS
- the InfoBASIC language and file structure make it quite a serious
- contender in real world development cycles. Unidata provides a SQL
- frontend and UniVerse's release 7 will have SQL. I'm from a MUMPS
- background doing migration from PICK to Informix. The transactional
- section of the package will be left in PICK and the analytical in
- Informix Wingz.
-
- PICK and MUMPS kick RDBMS's to pieces in performance, with SQL their
- once closed nature will be open, shoot, running on most open
- systems now, without SQL maybe they're open already... read the BYTE
- article.
- ---
- abledsoe@sdf.lonestar.org
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 27, Number 99
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-