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- From: JOHNK@fapsys.prime.com (J. D. King)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: re: System Builder & Simple Source
- Message-ID: <31486@adm.brl.mil>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 08:36:04 GMT
- Sender: news@adm.brl.mil
- Lines: 39
-
- > This morning my boss walked in my office and asked: "What are Simple Source
- > and System Builder?" If I had known what he was talking about you wouldn't
- > see this article on the net, and if I don't find out soon I'll be mopping
- > the floor with my buddy Joe.
- >
- > Does anyone know what they are, what they do, and how to get them? I would
- > really appreciate if anyone could e-mail any suggestions to me. Will they
- > run on IBM RS/6000 with AIX 3.2?
-
- I don't know what Simple Source is, but I know of a product called System
- Builder ... a Pick-based applications-environment developed by System
- Builder Corporation. (Pick is a relational-database environment, marketed
- and developed by various companies in various flavours: Native PICK
- [operating system = Pick], Prime Information [os = PRIMOS & Unix], UniVerse
- [Unix], Ultimate [Unix] etc.)
-
- It runs on DOS, Pick or Unix, using 4GL tools and windowing techniques to
- build applications ... it's a good product.
-
- It will run on IBM RS/6000s under Prime Information or UniVerse, for example.
- (an advantage of Prime Information is that the same generated code will run
- on many other different platforms [SUN, DEC, HP, DG, MIPS ...] without
- recompilation, for all version-releases - a good portabilty/development
- point, but of course you should investigate the pros and cons of the various
- environments yourself).
-
- I can give you the following contacts (I assume you're in the States):
-
- Sytem Builder (SB+): Prime Information (PI/open)
- (on all continents) (all over the States & the world)
-
- 2658 Holcombe Bridge Road, Prime Computer
- Suite 100, Prime Park,
- Alpharetta, GA 30201 Natick, MA 01760
-
- Tel. (404) 992 6187 Tel. (508) 655 8000
- Fax. (404) 640 9441
-
- regards, John King, Prime Switzerland
-