RE: Unidata DB

Yeah...I forgot about GIRLS! There was also a series of companies called Ultimate (used DEC LSI and Honeywell hardware), General Automation (the Zebra line), and others. Revelation was a PC-based product initially published by Cognos if I remember correctly. It required the 8087 numeric processor be added to your 8088 or 8086 system.

I seem to recall the Stauffer name from Pick conventions of years past. Did you do work with Pick and it's variants?

Mike

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Different product:

>From a posting on comp.databases:

it actually started life as a system called GIRLS. Meant for tracking helicopter parts. It then split into two - owned by two companies called Pick
Systems and Microdata. Pick Systems then licenced their version which became

Reality, D3, and a variety of others. Pick Systems has now bought back nearly
all of its licencees and through various machinations is now a company called
Raining Data.

The Microdata developers split up as well, leading to Revelation, Open Insight, Prime Information, UniVerse, Unidata, ... IBM has now swallowed up the last-named three as part of its takeover of Informix.

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You can take a look at the IBM website for more information on the Unidata database - the IBM U2 product family:

"IBM UniData® is an extended relational database designed for embedding in vertical applications. This nested relational data model allows for rapid, intuitive data modeling and fewer resulting tables. UniData simplifies data management and query logic, providing more power for on-line, high-transaction applications."

--Glenn

On Thursday 14 February 2002 10:13 am, you wrote:
> Um... Are you sure it's not Universal DB? AFAIK, that's really just
> DB2... More a marketing thing...
>
> Tim
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> Has anyone heard of Unidata DB. It's relational and from IBM.
>
> Thanks,
> Ken Janusz, CPIM

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