| Title: | DEC Rdb against the World |
| Moderator: | HERON::GODFRIND |
| Created: | Fri Jun 12 1987 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Feb 23 1995 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1348 |
| Total number of notes: | 5438 |
Has anyone run up against PRIME Computer's relational DBMS named
INFORMATION? I have an opportunity with a large company that is
currently a PRIME shop running a home-grown estimating application
written in INFORMATION. They are considering a shift to a VAX/VMS
platform, so a conversion would eventually need to be done. Any
information would be appreciated. Thanks.
Regards,
Steve McVey
DTN 445-6406
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| 402.1 | Third party PICK board available !?! | SNO78C::BELAKHOV | Oh, my god, it's full of stars. | Thu Aug 17 1989 09:17 | 10 |
I do not know much about INFORMATION, but it may not be necessary
to do a conversion in the short run, as I believe there is a PICK
board that can be put into VAXes. This approach may allow the customer
to quickly get rid of the Prime machine and convert at a later stage,
when they are ready.
With this approach you get to sell an extra VAX (:-)
Regards,
Michael
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| 402.2 | UBEAUT::CLEARY | A deviant having fun..." | Mon Aug 21 1989 03:22 | 17 | |
The boards Michael is talking about are from Ultimate Corp who were an
SCMP for a while. I believe that they no longer have any marketing
arrangement and have dropped support for VAX based solutions. The
boards were UNIBUS only from memory.
INFORMATION is a PRIME implementation PICK which is normally an
operating system and a `database' combined. I know nothing about the
operating system but believe that the database is basically a hashed
file system. It is programmed in a language similar to basic.
Paul Tanner (snoc02::tanner) once worked for PRIME R&D on INFORMATION
development and support. He can probably provide additional
information about the product. He may not be much help on conversion
issues. There is a notes conference HUMAN::PICK_OS.
Good luck,
-mark
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