I knew all of this except that I thought that DataStage still ran on Universe, not a modified clone of Universe. So, this does add to my MultiValue database picture another imbedded PICK engine in a product and gets the Ascential company into the MultiValue Family Tree picture (next time I update it). Thanks to all for the clarifications. --dawn
Dawn M. Wolthuis Tincat Group, Inc. www.tincat-group.com Take and give some delight today. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David T. Meeks Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 8:55 AM To: U2 Users Discussion List Subject: RE: [ot] Peoplesoft migrates to Ascential Ascential is basically VMark/Ardent.� Almost all of the engineering, sales, support staff that were responsible for Universe up until UV Rel 9.6 work for Ascential (myself and Glenn being two you've come to know over the years) When the split occurred, IBM retained the rights to sell/develop the UniVerse product, as well as the former UniData engineers who were trained on the internals of UnIverse.� They now are responsible for UV releases, with UV Rel 10 being the first release to come from there.� Ascential also kept the rights to the source code.� Internal to the DataStage product set (specifically what is known as DataStage Server, not to be confused with DataStage PX, TX, or 390) is the UniVerse engine, re-branded the DataStage Engine.� It is only available as part of the DS Server package. So no, Ascential is not a Universe customer.� However, IBM is an Ascential customer and reseller.� They resell the DataStage product suite. It does increase the footprint of enterprises around the world that have one of those MV engines running at their site, though. Dave At 08:30 AM 1/29/2004 -0600, you wrote: Thanks for passing that along.� Is Ascential a Universe customer of IBM's or did they end up taking Universe and changing it so that they are yet another flavor of 'PICK' (not yet on my MultiValue Family Tree diagram)?� If so, is it now called something other than Universe?� Thanks.� --dawn ======================================================================== David T. Meeks�������������������� || "All my life I'm taken by surprise Architect, Technology Office������ ||� I'm someone's waste of time Ascential Software���������������� ||� Now I walk a balanced line [EMAIL PROTECTED] ||� and step into tomorrow" - IQ ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
