Re: Wishing trolls away

"mAsterdam" <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org> wrote in message news:40a5ee2d$0$566$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl...
> Paul wrote:
>
> > Anthony W. Youngman wrote:
> >
> >> I'd suggest downloading a commercial freebie and playing with it. Go
> >> to www.u2ug.org and look for the links to the IBM download pages. The
> >> denizens of comp.databases.pick are friendly if you need any help.
> >
> >
> > OK I'm looking at: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/u2/
> > What's the essential difference between UniData and UniVerse?
> > It's not quite clear to me from the specs.
>
>
> From the FAQ at
>
http://www.u2ug.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=FAQ&file=index&myfaq=yes&id_cat=2#1
>
> · What are the differences between UniVerse and UniData?
>
> Coming soon!

We just started the U2UG within the last year and the web site is new.

>
> > I see they are both touted as "extended relational databases", that's
> > guaranteed to annoy some on this list! :)
>
> Now why would that be? :-)

history and marketing ;-)

> > OK, I'll have a look at Maverick as well.
>
> At http://mav.sourceforge.net I could not find wether / how Maverick
> relates to RM / SQL databases (not even in the FAQ). From what I read it
> effectively ignores them. Does anybody know if this is deliberate, if
> so, why?

Wol can give a better response as to what his original intent was, but this is an open source start at a Pick implementation. So, why is Dataphor ignoring the Nelson-PICK model? The reason why Maverick is ignoring the Codd model is pretty similar -- it has its roots elsewhere.

Cheers! --dawn Received on Sat May 15 2004 - 17:35:28 CEST