Pick Systems` VAR, Intelligent Information, yesterday announced the local availability of Liberator which is designed to convert applications developed with System Builder or SB+ to a fully functional GUI environment.
Schalk de Klerk, MD, Intelligent Information, said Liberator would be incorporated into Pick`s Component Strategy, allowing Pick users to upgrade systems to Windows.
The product, a subset of the RAD II suite, supports the thin client approach and uses standard TCP/IP protocol for networked connectivity or an ASCII terminal with serial RS232 connectivity to the server.
De Klerk said Liberator is capable of converting 60% to 100% of an application online, without modifying the existing System Builder or SB+ application. It creates a new environment enabling developers to run in parallel while still testing the converted application. The conversion makes the entire RAD II suite tools available.
Liberator was developed in SA by Intelligent Information and is sanctioned by Pick Systems, a developer of multi-user, multi-value database management system (DBMS) software.

