In addition to our commercial offerings PFCS Corporation is involved in a number of side and non-profit projects:
Mumps is a powerful string manipulation language with an embedded database, and is ideally suited for applications which store and access large random databases. PFCS Corporation's Unix Mumps is a high-performance, well-integrated Mumps implementation for Unix. Exceeding the ANSI X11.1-1990 Mumps Standard, Unix Mumps provides arbitrary precision arithmetic and unlimited subscript, data, and variable storage.
Mumps applications include health care, accounting and finance, manufacturing and inventory control, telemarketing, shipping, publications libraries, law enforcement, facilities management, office automation, human resources management, full-text search and retrieval, sales management and order tracking, and computer-based instruction.
Unix Mumps has its own project page.
PFCS Corporation's owner, Harlan Stenn, is the primary maintainer of the open source Network Time Protocol project, as well as the NTP Programme Manager of the NTP Public Services Project. He has brought his many years of programming and software engineering experience to moving the project forward into the new millenium.
The PIKT project offers a toolset that supports global-view, site-at-a-time system and network administration.
The Arusha Project (ARK) provides a framework for collaborative system administration of multi-platform Unix sites with many dozens of machines.
The Environment Modules package provides for the dynamic modification of a user's environment via modulefiles.
Modules makes it easy to provide each process with specific versions of every software tool it needs.
Here are some links to some places we like:
Here are links to the home pages of some of the folks at PFCS Corporation: