Andrew po-jung Ho wrote:
>
> On Sat, 21 Apr 2001 09:30:04 Tim Churches wrote:
> ...
> >Ah, that brings back memories! Advanced Revelation (AREV) was (still is)
> >a combined database/application development environment based on the
> >venerable (and venerated)
> >Pick operating system/database.
> ...
>
> Hi Tim,
>
> Indeed, I knew someone who worked for Pick systems in 1987. It has a very
> interesting/powerful architecture.
PICK was developed by Dick Pick for the US Dept of Defense in the mid
1960s. Legend has it that its first use was to comprehensively track the
comprehensive bombing of Cambodia by the US - certainly PIck (and AREV)
internal date values start at 1 Jan 1969 (or was it 1 Jan 1970?).
> Information about Advanced Revelation can be found at : http://www.revelation.com/
> It costs $5000 for unlimited number of users. Single user runtime license is $200.
They still haven't learnt that runtime licenses are a disaster for any
application development environment. The cost of runtime licenses is
only part of the story. The administrative costs and overhead of
ordering, tracking, distributing and auditing end user licenses can be
remarkably high.
>
> There is an open-source project that provides a Pick-like database system. It
>supports BASIC as well (like Advanced Revelation). I believe it is implemented in
>Java. If anyone is interested, it is here:
> http://www.maverick-dbms.org/
Looks like it has a long way to go before it is usable. In any case,
AREV implemented a proprietary parameter-driven application development
layer on top of its PICK underpinnings.
> Maybe OSCAR can be ported to MaVerick?
First step is to determine how valuable OSCAR is, and how much of its
value lies in the design and how much in the implementation.
Tim C
