Hi Dawn The arguments we had with Ardent management on this. Ardent Management were saying that they don't know why anyone would buy a multivalue database, whilst on the other hand they were promoting Datastage a UniVerse product, as being one of the best Datawarehousing tools on the market. Figure?
Not only is it a pick embeded application, Datastage has outstanding capabilitions in data integration with impressive benchmarks for data loads (I think it still holds the record for dataloading) which flys in the face of the critiscms of Pick for interoperability. Sure datastage has added other facilities on, but if Datastage can do it so can Universe. Regards David Jordan Managing Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dacono Holdings Pty Ltd Business & Technology Consulting PO Box 909 Lane Cove NSW 2066 Australia Ph 61 2 9418 8329 Fax 61 2 9427 2371 www.dacono.com.au -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dawn M. Wolthuis Sent: Friday, 30 January 2004 6:16 AM To: 'U2 Users Discussion List' Subject: RE: [ot] Peoplesoft migrates to Ascential 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 _______________________________________________ u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
