| I just read this note. I am also looking for some information on
CINCOM products, but can answer some of the questions.
>>> 1. Does the CINCOM product, SUPRA, use the distributed lock manager?
No ... does not use the distributed lock manager
>>> 2. Does the CINCOM product, SUPRA, run across clusters?
No ... it does not support clusters the way Rdb and Ingres does.
It must treat each node in the cluster as a separate network node.
The overhead of network access is incurred.
Does anyone have any more information on SUPRA/MANTIS.
In the insurance world there are three companies that have policy
and claims management applications. Two of them are IBM based systems
and one is a Digital based application.
PMS - is the oldest IBM based package. Not doing to well anymore.
REALTIME - is the Digital based application. Proprietary
software/database but is a good performer, but hard to integrate.
PAXIS - new IBM based product using SUPRA/MATIS V1.35 (not relational).
It is common to find insurance companies with more than one of the
above applications. I would like to know if anyone knows of any
products that interface from IBM/SUPRA to Digital/Rdb. I believe
I could use SUPRA/MANTIS on the DEC platform, but this would not
drive up my stock price.
Apparently CINCOM has/or will be shortly delivering a new version
of SUPRA that is relational and has an SQL interface. Does anyone
have anymore information, knockoffs, features, etc? Are CINCOM's
products/appliations portable between IBM and DEC?
Why anyone would bet their business on CINCOM today I don't know.
As an ex CINCOM customer ('85) support and product delivery left
a lot to be desired. I belive they are also not doing very well
financially.
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| Ken, tried of playing telephone tag with you.
Firts, I have a couple of manuals on CINCOM. Let me know if you
want to borrow them.
Second, because CINCOM was part of the VAX Attract for HP program,
the Colorado Conversion Center has a lot of expertise.
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| A CINCOM sales team (salesman + software engineer) gave a 2-hour
presentation here (GSG Technical Services, Landover, MD) yesterday.
They're alarmingly agressive. Presentation was jumbled, appeared
to mix current and future functionality of both MANTIS and SUPRA.
I honestly expected to hear, "It slices, dices. Isn't it amazing..."
The software engineer seemed to know his product's internals well,
but kept apologizing that "the engineer who knows Digital" couldn't
be at the meeting. He surely didn't. Didn't know what a hashed
index was, but did know specifics of how SUPRA handles large segmented
strings.
It was a very mixed-message presentation. I'm going to a CINCOM
"technical presentation" next week and will post whatever I learn.
But does anyone have feedback as to how reliable these people, their
products, and their promises are?
Elaine
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