Re: Informix products for printing companies

DTTS@nctamslant.navy.mil ("NAVMTO_043") writes: > A good friend owns a printing company which makes labels for various vendors, > primarily in the food industry. His business has now grown so large that he > badly needs to automate many of his manual processes (payroll/accounting, job > estimating, scheduling, order tracking, etc.). I recommended he look for an > off-the-shelf product, if available, by someone who specializes in this > vertical market. > > He has since been contacted by a software vendor, PRIMAC, and asked me to look > at their prospectus and sit in on a demo next week. Their UNIX product uses > the UniData relational database, and they push IBM RISC 6000 computers. > > Several questions for anyone who may be able to help me: > > Anyone ever heard of PRIMAC? Recommend them? > > Anyone know of any products of this nature which run under Informix? I > naturally prefer Informix since I am familiar with it, but I do not want to > force him into a product which may not be best for his needs. > > Anyone ever heard of UniData? Good? Bad? How well does it port to platforms > other than the IBM RISC 6000? Have you heard of Covalent Systems in Fremont, CA. Their only business is software of the type described above for the printing industry. The product is Informix Online based and runs on SCO UNIX, ALTOS UNIX, DEC RISC(ULTRIX) and RS6000(AIX). I recall that they have over 1000 customer sites including some large ones like all of the Canadian Government's printing offices. Their phone number is 510/683-3900. I worked there a couple of years back. -- Daniel Wood daniel@starsight.com, dwood@informix.com The opinions expressed herein are those of myself, my employers, the carriers of this news message or any other messages for that matter, you the reader and any of your relations(whether by birth or chromosome count), all life forms and all inanimate objects.