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==Details== | ==Details== | ||
[[ | [[File:UIMedium.png|thumb|Unicorn InterGlobal logo]] | ||
'''Unicorn InterGlobal Limited''' is a software development, services and sales company based in England, UK. Its primary fields of expertise are in [[DataFlex]] (both in [[DOS]] and [[Unix]]/[[Linux]]), [[Visual DataFlex]], [[Web Application]]s, [[Ajax]], [[Web Services]] and various [[Databases]] ([[DataFlex]], [[Pervasive]], [[Oracle]], [[SQL Server]], [[MySQL]]). | '''Unicorn InterGlobal Limited''' is a software development, services and sales company based in England, UK. Its primary fields of expertise are in [[DataFlex]] (both in [[DOS]] and [[Unix]]/[[Linux]]), [[Visual DataFlex]], [[Web Application]]s, [[Ajax]], [[Web Services]] and various [[Databases]] ([[DataFlex]], [[Pervasive]], [[Oracle]], [[SQL Server]], [[MySQL]]). | ||
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In 2005 however UFS's single significant client closed down (for complicated corporate reasons, involving their parent company's regulatory and governance woes) and all the staff had to be laid off (without ''too'' much pain: there had been over a year's warning), leaving Mike to try and make an honest living, which he did, in part by acting as one UIG's consultants. | In 2005 however UFS's single significant client closed down (for complicated corporate reasons, involving their parent company's regulatory and governance woes) and all the staff had to be laid off (without ''too'' much pain: there had been over a year's warning), leaving Mike to try and make an honest living, which he did, in part by acting as one UIG's consultants. | ||
[[File:UIG30-2.png|thumb|120px|30 years of Unicorn]] | |||
In 2006 Carol, for various personal reasons, decided that she would, bizarrely, prefer to live a life of luxury in the Caribbean than continue to run UIG, and so sold UIG back to Mike. The office was again moved, this time to just south of Reading, about 60km west of London, where the company is to be found today. | In 2006 Carol, for various personal reasons, decided that she would, bizarrely, prefer to live a life of luxury in the Caribbean than continue to run UIG, and so sold UIG back to Mike. The office was again moved, this time to just south of Reading, about 60km west of London, where the company is to be found today. | ||
(PS: Tanned, but bored, Carol eventually returned to the UK... but is no longer working in the DataFlex community.) | (PS: Tanned, but bored, Carol eventually returned to the UK... but is no longer working in the DataFlex community.) | ||
In 2019 Unicorn celebrated its 30th anniversary! | |||
[[Category: DataFlex Community]] | [[Category: DataFlex Community]] | ||