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- Ardent Software have completed the initial portation of their Universe
RDBMS to Linux RedHat. No details of release dates are available at present.
A port of Unidata to Linux is expected sometime in the second quarter of 1999.
- MDIS Group plc has extended its investment in Scotland with a new
office at Castle Business Park, Stirling. MDIS already has offices in Aberdeen,
Livingston, Motherwell and a subsidiary in Edinburgh. The new office will
support a growing Scottish customer base which includes the Scottish Environmental
Protection Agency, Strathclyde Police, Dumfries and Galloway Police, Scottish
Courts, Scottish Ambulance Service, North Glasgow NHS Trust, Aberdeen Royal
Hospitals NHS Trust and North Lanarkshire Council.
- Follett College Stores, the largest college bookstore chain in the US with
over 585 sites and almost $1bn in annual sales, is rolling out a new D3NT
-based store automation system from Utah-based Integris. 200 stores have gone
live since July 1997, with another 300+ in the pipeline, to bring their total
installed seats to around 5,000.
The new system offers point-of-sale, accounts receivable, accounts payable,
general ledger and stock ledger, with real-time inventory control (ordering,
returns processing, inter-store transfers) on the horizon.
- Coversure Insurance Services recently beat out stiff competition to win
the award for Best Broker Use of Technology. This 105-user system
carries out quotation, back office and accounting for the Coversure group,
a nationwide insurance broking franchise of 40+ offices.
Coversure in partnership with Data Matters, computer consulting firm,
utilized Pick Systems D3 SCO DBMS with hot backup running
on twin Pentiums. The low system requirements enable it to run on low spec
machines without any performance sacrifices - scanning the data and rates
of up to 100 insurance companies and delivering a quotation in about 3 seconds.
- RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia (formerly Royal Melbourne Institute
of Technology) has selected jBASE as the foundation database for the
Networking and Distributed Processing course offered by its School
of Business Information.
We needed to demonstrate a distributed processing concept and web programming
techniques and jBASE was certainly up to the task, says Stas Lukaitis,
the Course Designer. Students on the course gain experience in client/server,
LAN, WAN, web and distributed database technologies.
- International pharmaceutical giant GlaxoWellcome has selected a D3Linux-based
financial management system from Power Business Systems for its South African
division, citing low cost of implementation, SQL/ODBC connectivity and Year
2000 compliance among the deciding factors.
Last Updated: 30
June 1999