Re: Informix products for printing companies

Daniel Wood (daniel@starsight.com) wrote: : DTTS@nctamslant.navy.mil ("NAVMTO_043") writes: : > 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. Hi, I'm Jackie Burhans, a technical account manager at Unidata. : > 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? Well I work at Unidata so I have my opintion :-). UniData runs on many platforms--obviously IBM RISC 6000, HP, Data General, Digital, SCO UNIX, Sun Solaris, UnixWare, Stratus, Silico Graphics, Sequoia TOPIX, ATT Sys5.4v2 and even, VMS, OpenVMS ans OSF/1. If you want more information about Unidata and you have a web browser, try http://unidata.com If you'd like some marketing info about the company, send me e-mail and I'll send you some brochures describing the company and its products. By, the way, I recently worked on a project with an Informix guru (:-) to link Informix and UniData together such that you can read/write/delete, etc to UniData from Informix 4GL AND you can read/write/delete, etc. to Informix from UniData via ESQL/C. We did this to tie a UniData vertical app into an Informix shop. Jackie Burhans Unidata, Inc. http://unidata.com/~burhans