Goo'day, Walter,
At 17:33 31/01/06 -0500, you wrote:
We are looking extremely hard at moving our company to an MRP/DM vertical
solution written to run on the UniVerse platform. Our internal staff has
dozens of years experience with filePro, mySQL, PHP, perl... yet we have
no experience among the four of us working with UniVerse or any
MultiValued/Pick DBMS.
The whole concept doesn't scare us since it appears to be a mashing
together of a lot of concepts that we already are familiar with.
HOWEVER.
What about the newbies? Don't we get any love? I have went through every
google term I could think of to come up with a simple "This is how you get
started with a UniVerse". I have installed the personal editions and have
the server running, but I have no clue as to really creating a database,
defining a table, inserting data into a record, retrieving data from a
record, and applying business logic to fields.
Is there not a "UniVerse for Dummies" website? Our sales rep asked his
programmer and he said, "I learned it 20 years ago, I don't know how you
would learn it today."
I reckon you should enrol you and your people in the classes organised by
IBM. Get a grounding in the Multi-Value and UniVerse concepts first,
then look at your application from that grounding and get the provider/VAR
to add specifics to the knowledge you have already acquired.
You might have caught the posting earlier today:
"Folks:
Based on a recent thread about UniVerse 'internals' class availability - I
researched. The class is now named 'UniVerse Theory and Practice'.
It has recently been added to the IBM US class schedule. June 6-9 in
Denver.
Wally Terhune
Manager - U2 Advanced Client Support
IBM Information Management
4700 South Syracuse Street, Denver, CO 80237
Tel: 303.773.7969
Fax: 303.773.5915
[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
In point of fact, I'd hazard that's how most of us did it - no matter how
many years ago it was... It probably wasn't via IBM, though....
Alternatively, I think there are still courses available from "private
sources".... Perhaps somebody can come up with a list or a local....
And, if it's not too soon, welcome to the club....
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Bruce Nichol
Talon Computer Services
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Australia
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If it ain't broke, fix it till it is!
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