I was looking at our bookshelf, we have the old series of soft cover manuals from V-Mark on UniVerse and then we have several books on PICK, none of which is new. Our PICK books are from 1985 to 1990 mostly published by TAB Professional and Reference Books, one is from Hayden Book Company; Exploring the PICK Operating System by Jonathan E. Sisk and Steve VanArsdale. The TAB books are: PICK for the IBM PC and Compatibles by John W. Winters, PH.D and Dale E. Winters; Programming with IBM PC Basic and the PICK Database System by David L. Clark; PICK Basic A Programmers Guide by Jonathan E. Sisk; The PICK Perspective by Ian Jeffery Sandler; PICK for Professionals Advanced Methods and Techniques by Harvey E. Rodstein and lastly, The PICK Pocket Guide by Jonathan E. Sisk. This last one I think has stopped many people at the airport luggage check. Although they are old they still come in handy especially when training new people. It would be nice to have newer books to choose from with more updated programming techniques, applications, and languages. As Alice's Restaurant says, "With circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one saying what they was all about." Jerry
-----Original Message----- From: Charles Barouch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 8:58 AM To: [email protected] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [U2] UniData 7.1 vs. MS SQL 2005 performance Robert, There is a firmly held belief that if books were available, that we, as a group, are too cheap to buy them. Clif Oliver (who ran this list for 9 years) used to edit a Pick series of O'Reilly. When I contacted Tim O'Reilly about a year ago, proposing new MV books, he said that he'd love to, but he can't afford to lose that kind of money. If you want books, we need to commit to publishers. I'm sure Brian would be willing to put up a sign-up sheet on U2UG.org, so we can submit a list of people who promise to buy at least one copy if a publisher will print a new book. I think a pre-order of 1K copies would get us some traction. Are we willing to spend $15 to $50 a piece for a new U2 book? I don't think they'll have trouble finding willing writers. -- Charles Barouch [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Consulting (718) 762-3884x1 ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
