Pyramid Technology Corp, Mountain View, California has announced a three year $5m joint marketing and development agreement with Pick house Systems Management Inc of Chicago, Illinois: the two companies will jointly market Pyramid’s machines with SMI’s manufacturing and financial software which will run under Vmark Software Inc’s UniVerse database management system using Pyramid’s dual port OSx Unix operating system and a jointly developed RPL interface to UniVerse – Pyramid says it sees the agreement with SMI as a means of carving a niche in the Pick marketplace.