History of Pick was Fujitsu stuff
History of Pick was Fujitsu stuff
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As I understand it, Dick from his point-of-view had an agreement to license his stuff to Microdata. However, from THEIR point-of-view, he sold it to them. So I believe the law suit was something like "Its mine!" "No its mine!" "No its mine!" "No its mine!" plus some other legal clutter.
I believe it was settled using the sword of Solomon, although it was followed through this time. Split the baby! Its both of yours. Go your way and sin no more. -Will
In a message dated Fri, 19 Oct 2001 12:02:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Henry Keultjes writes:
> Paul:
>
> Thats probably a very good analogy because the auto industry also has
> a huge segment of both suppliers and resellers that are typically much
> smaller in size than the "assemblers". However, in our own mdRDBMS
> industry there are actually VARs that are actually quite a bit larger
> than at least one of the mdRDBMS companies.
>
> Also, in our own mdRDBMS world most of this consolidation has already
> taken place. I believe that Pick had a total of 14 licensees and of
> those only an Ultimate remnant, OSS, is left. Reality is, of course,
> still around but, as the original it technically never was a Pick
> licensee because the Microdata implementation preceded Pick Systems.
>
> However, it is interesting to note that, while UniVerse and UniData
> have consolidated under one corporate umbrella, all the Pick "clones",
> including jBASE and Univision, have sofar survived as freestanding
> products.
>
> Henry Keultjes
> MD-Linux Scientifics
> Mansfield Ohio USA
> Voice 419-525-1111
> Home 419-756-0527
>
> MD-Linux is a non-profit 501(C)(3) project that will completely
> integrate a multi-dimensional Relational Database Management System
> (mdRDBMS) with Open Source Linux and a GUI such that the database
> becomes the storehouse of the OS and GUI as well as the application
> intelligence and data.
>
> MD-Linux and the PowerPC based LinuxPC are intended to serve as a
> platform for LeanIT in the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) market
> and as the client/desktop in existing mdRDBMS installations.
>
>
>
> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:18:40 From: Paul Eghbal
>
>
> This is in line with a trend acknowledged by Gartners CEO, that
> within the next 3 years the number of firms providing IT solutions
> will be half of what it is today. Some will simply not make it, and
> the rest will be consolidated into others.
>
> It reminds me of what I read about the Auto industry, where there used
> to be many more Auto makers in the early stages of its growth, but now
> there are only 3 giants.
I believe it was settled using the sword of Solomon, although it was followed through this time. Split the baby! Its both of yours. Go your way and sin no more. -Will
In a message dated Fri, 19 Oct 2001 12:02:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Henry Keultjes writes:
> Paul:
>
> Thats probably a very good analogy because the auto industry also has
> a huge segment of both suppliers and resellers that are typically much
> smaller in size than the "assemblers". However, in our own mdRDBMS
> industry there are actually VARs that are actually quite a bit larger
> than at least one of the mdRDBMS companies.
>
> Also, in our own mdRDBMS world most of this consolidation has already
> taken place. I believe that Pick had a total of 14 licensees and of
> those only an Ultimate remnant, OSS, is left. Reality is, of course,
> still around but, as the original it technically never was a Pick
> licensee because the Microdata implementation preceded Pick Systems.
>
> However, it is interesting to note that, while UniVerse and UniData
> have consolidated under one corporate umbrella, all the Pick "clones",
> including jBASE and Univision, have sofar survived as freestanding
> products.
>
> Henry Keultjes
> MD-Linux Scientifics
> Mansfield Ohio USA
> Voice 419-525-1111
> Home 419-756-0527
>
> MD-Linux is a non-profit 501(C)(3) project that will completely
> integrate a multi-dimensional Relational Database Management System
> (mdRDBMS) with Open Source Linux and a GUI such that the database
> becomes the storehouse of the OS and GUI as well as the application
> intelligence and data.
>
> MD-Linux and the PowerPC based LinuxPC are intended to serve as a
> platform for LeanIT in the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) market
> and as the client/desktop in existing mdRDBMS installations.
>
>
>
> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 09:18:40 From: Paul Eghbal
>
>
> This is in line with a trend acknowledged by Gartners CEO, that
> within the next 3 years the number of firms providing IT solutions
> will be half of what it is today. Some will simply not make it, and
> the rest will be consolidated into others.
>
> It reminds me of what I read about the Auto industry, where there used
> to be many more Auto makers in the early stages of its growth, but now
> there are only 3 giants.