Doug Baker, founder of the original MAI Basic Four Inc, long-time president of Qantel Inc and a refugee from the failed New World Computer disk drive venture, has turned up as president of Pick Blue, Pick Systems Inc’s RT unit, now in the process of becoming a separate company: Pick, which was showing its operating system on AT&T’s 3B2 at Comdex, is promising to have Pick seamlessly integrated with AIX on IBM’s upcoming next-generation RTs, by Uniforum in January, but still figures its real growth will be in the 80286/Xenix after-market; Pick has had serious bugs in its RT software, which almost cost it its prized reseller, IBM Australia, but Baker, who quietly moved into his new office six weeks ago, says the technology has been 90% patched up by now, salvaging the situation.
