Pick Systems, a leading developer of multi-user database management system (DBMS) software, has recently announced the availability of its D3 database for the UnixWare 7 operating system from SCO.
This new release marks Pick`s intention of making its proven database technology available to developers for rapid application design, development and deployment. The database system will enable developers to have access to the latest technologies including the SCO Webtop Browser-based interface.
"Pick Systems has been developing on SCO platforms for over ten years and we continue our support with the release of D3 UnixWare," says Adrian Oxborrow, managing director of Pick Systems Africa.
"Many of the interfaces in UnixWare 7 have been modified to support industry standards, providing a very smooth migration. Now, our VARs can deploy the over 4,000 commercially-available Pick-based applications on the reliable and efficient UnixWare platform."
According to Oxborrow, the industry is in constant flux and the ability to adapt to ever changing business needs provides a competitive edge.
"As the SCO platform evolves, so do the capabilities of Pick Systems` DBMS.
Change is good. But, change combined with reliability is much better."
Continues Oxborrow, "Our goal is to enable our VARs to keep up with the most current technologies today and tomorrow. By supporting UnixWare 7, we are also
providing a roadmap to future technologies such as `Project Monterey,` the unified UNIX initiative."
UnixWare 7 offers new levels of reliability, support for Linux applications, enhanced interoperability, as well as new file, print and back-up services. It also features the Webtop, a new innovative browser-based interface based on the Tarantella web-enabling technology from SCO.
The Webtop allows solution developers to generate a front-end using web technology, such as Java* script and HTML. Applications need no additional modification and appear in the browser unchanged. Pick Systems is the first database vendor to demonstrate support for the UnixWare 7 Webtop on a real application called DockMaster developed by Software Support Team (a Pick Systems` VAR).
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D3
Pick Systems` D3 DBMS is a sophisticated development environment, which provides the basis for client/server applications, data warehouses and web-enabled databases. D3 offers rapid economical application design, development and deployment with scalability from a single client up to thousands of clients. It also provides seamless integration with Windows environments. Additional features include built-in B-trees, true-compiled FlashBASIC language, Access Query Language (AQL) for speed and ease-of-use, unlimited views of information, business rule support, triggers, OSFI/ODBC and SQL connectivity. D3 also offers direct APIs to Visual Basic and an HTML language tool, named FlashCONNECT.
Pick Systems
Pick Systems Africa is a wholly owned subsidiary of Pick Systems Inc. For nearly three decades, Pick Systems, Inc. has been developing database technology. D3,
the company`s latest-generation multi-user, multi-value database management system, is an open systems environment, which supports ODBC, SQL and OSFI standards. D3 runs on a wide spectrum of hardware, including PC, midrange and massively-parallel computing systems and is available for most varieties of UNIX*
including IBM AIX, Hewlett-Packard UX, SCO OpenServer and UnixWare 7, and Red Hat Linux and Linux-Mandrake, in addition to Microsoft Windows NT and Windows 95 operating environments. Pick markets its products worldwide through a network of over 800 VARs who offer more than 4,000 Year 2000-compliant, commercially-available applications. The Professional Services division provides Pick`s customers with assistance in all aspects of project management.