Talk:Cullinet

This article needs work. There are some minor problems regarding facts about the software mentioned itself. Spaceyankee 17:41, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

All of the documentation (e.g., end-user manuals, customer courseware manuals, and application progammer manuals) were written [by me, Walt V. Bernacki--Senior Documentation Specialist--Walt Bernacki now lives in Cape May, NJ; Assistant Professor of English at Atlantic Cape Community College] using a very primitive form of a word processor called "INTERACT," which was designed and developed by Cullinane Database Software programmers to simply provide a notation tool for the COBOL programmers to use as a means to capture design notes. INTERACT required the use of an IBM-3270 "dumb terminal" linked through dedicated data lines to Cullinet's mainframe located just north of Boston. Ads/Online was the first pliable software package that allowed database programmers to design end-user screens by actually using a visual "map" of each screen image that could be tailored visually to any database end users in a variety of technologies. Clients included Martin Marietta, GE Space, US Department of Defense, Missouri State Census and Payroll Records Department, and NORAD.

Question about Interact

Was not Interact a version of Wylbur?

ADS/OnLine Software was one of the first online application development tools.

All of the documentation (e.g., end-user manuals, customer courseware manuals, and application progammer manuals) for the ADS/OnLine product line were written [by me, Walt V. Bernacki--Senior Documentation Specialist--Walt Bernacki now lives in Cape May, NJ; Assistant Professor of English at Atlantic Cape Community College] using a very primitive form of a word processor called "INTERACT," which was designed and developed by Cullinane Database Software programmers to simply provide a notation tool for the COBOL programmers to use as a means to capture design notes. INTERACT required the use of an IBM-3270 "dumb terminal" linked through dedicated data lines to Cullinet's mainframe located just north of Boston. Ads/Online was the first pliable software package that allowed database programmers to design end-user screens by actually using a visual "map" of each screen image that could be tailored visually to any database end users in a variety of technologies. Clients included Martin Marietta, GE Space, US Department of Defense, Missouri State Census and Payroll Records Department, and NORAD.

Multiple Editor Personality Disorder for IDS origin

Article contains the following internal debate:

[...] taking over development of a Honeywell database management system called IDS that had been modified to operate on IBM and IBM compatible (RCA) mainframes . Actually IDS was originally developed by General Electric, and a Bill Curtis had supposedly gotten the rights to convert the system to run on IBM equipment.

Somebody needs to clear up its origin (with cite) rather than carrying on an argument within the article itself. Also, IDS is ambiguous (I've tagged it as such), and Bill Curtis currently links to a redir to Bill Kurtis, which I'm guessing is wrong... .

"a Bill Curtis" and "supposedly" are also quite unencyclopedic.--NapoliRoma (talk) 22:06, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

and a disputed statement

Article also had:

The solution to the company's revenue problem turned out to be its new Integrated Data Dictionary [NOTE: THIS IS WRONG. IDD WAS PART OF IDMS WAY BACK IN THE 1970S.].

The "THIS IS WRONG" looks to have been added by Special:Contributions/99.233.218.21 on October 4, 2007. I've replaced it with a tag. --NapoliRoma (talk) 22:29, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

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I agree. IDD was at the core of IDMS when I first used it in 1977 and there was no new "dictionary" in development as of 1987. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.141.39.66 (talk) 17:05, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

MEPD III

Another debate, this time self-contained within one sentence:

In the process, Cullinet acquired some very questionable VAX companies but one had an outstanding relational DBMS but by then it was too late, the company's $50 million nest egg had been burned.

This one might be more a formatting problem than self-contradictory (although it's still quite loaded with POV).

While I'm at it, I might as well point out that "Goldengate was a mistake" is heavily into The POV Zone.--NapoliRoma (talk) 22:33, 22 December 2007 (UTC)

Questionable VAX Comnpanies: Cancor

On such questionable company was Cancor, a company headed by Tom Corr, and headquarteded in Mississauga, Ontario. Tom, I beleive, was made a VP at Cullinet after the qcquisition. He was later arrested in Toronto's Lester B. Peasron Airporty while attenpting to cross into the U.S. in May 1986 (1987?) as was charged for fraud (?) by the Canadian Government for reportedly running a SRTC scam. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.141.39.66 (talk) 17:10, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Slang

What does "the company had got hung up on the open architecture and relational issues" mean?Lestrade (talk) 00:33, 24 June 2008 (UTC)Lestrade