May/Jun 2003

PDAS AND BLUETOOTH - WHAT REALLY IS IT?

Bluetooth expands on the concept of a PDA being an "extension of the PC." Find out what Bluetooth really is and what it isn't. BY NATHAN RECTOR

SPECTRUM SPOTLIGHT: OHM MAKES WAVES ON THE WEB WITH WADE

Software developer OHM Systems Inc. wanted to move its manufacturing software application onto the Web, but couldn't find a product that met its requirements. The company finally found the right solution with the development of its own Web-centric Application Development Environment (WADE), a product that goes to another level of technology while taking advantage of the power of PICK.

LEGACY CORNER: QFILES AND MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS ON UNIX-BASED SYSTEMS, PARTS 1 AND 2

The simplicity of native MV systems easily allowed for the concept of the SET-FILE verb and its result, QFILE. PICK programming veteran Mark Johnson has installed a manual method of creating QFILES on U2 systems. BY MARK JOHNSON

LOCKING IT UP: KEEPING IT QUIET WITH SSL

Back in the early 1990s, we didn't worry much about information security on the Internet. But times have changed and so too has the issue of Internet security. This is where Secure Socket Layer (SSL) comes into play for folks who want security while on their browsers. MELVIN SORIANO

IMHO (IN MY HUMBLE OPINION) - MANAGING THE MIGRATION: A MODEL FOR SUCCESS, PART 2

An estimated 72 percent of all IT projects are late and over-budget. A defensive weapon against software migration failures and overruns is the Strategic Migration Maturity Model. BY STEVE VANARSDALE

MVTOOLCHEST - TWO FRESH NEW PRODUCTS ENHANCE MULTIVALUE APPLICATIONS

Visual e 4.0, from ScanNet System Corp., is a comprehensive suite of products designed to improve the functionality of your MultiValue database, enabling e-mailing, faxing, scanning, data mining, import/export, Windows Application Development, screen capture and local printing. mvWebstore, developed late last year by Cypress Business Solutions, is a fully functional, real-time e-Commerce application with a wide breadth of features.

CONSUMER CHRONICLES

AdvancedWare helps Preco Electronics Inc. deploy MITS for company-wide productivity gains. BY LEANNE GREEN

SCREEN VARIABLES

MultiValue systems are a natural for combining single value fields and multi-value fields within the same data record. This article removes the mystery of multi-page displays on maintenance programs. BY MARK JOHNSON

REVELATION TECH TIPS: NET GAINS - REVELATION'S NETWORK PRODUCTS

Networks have their share of problems - power surges, outages, end users who abnormally end their applications. To prevent data corruption, Revelation developed a suite of network products that guard your data from the pitfalls of a networked environment. BY KEVIN RUANE

THE HISTORY OF MULTIVALUE, CHAPTER 11: PICK DOES THE UNTHINKABLE - EMBRACES UNIX

The introduction of Advanced Pick/UNIX in 1990 represented a real concession to market pressures on the part of Dick Pick, who had previously considered UNIX to be a competitive multiuser operating system. BY GUS GIOBBI