Um...Are you sure it's notUniversal DB? AFAIK,
that's really just DB2... More a marketing thing...
Tim
-Original Message-From: KENNETH JANUSZ
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Unidata DB
I have not heard of it but for info you can start at
http://www-4.ibm.com/software/data/u2/unidata/
Rick
KENNETH
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,
UniData and UniVerse
are extended relational databases that were acquired as part of the Informix
buyout. UniData was originally developed by the UniData Company and UniVerse was
developed by VMark; VMark also developed Data Stage, using the UniVerse DB. The
two companies merged to form
Ah... It looks like it related to the IBM takeover of Informix...
UniData
UniData is an extended-relational, ODBC-compliant database that supports
repeating groups, hierarchies, and arrays. UniData offers both best-of-breed
native interfaces with ActiveX, Java and C interfaces as well as
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
