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From: davef@lakesys.UUCP (Dave Fenske)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Focus
Summary: Not a bad alternative.
Message-ID: <835@lakesys.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jul 89 01:09:47 GMT
Reply-To: davef@lakesys.UUCP (Dave Fenske)
Distribution: comp.databases
Organization: Lake Systems - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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I see a lot of mention of Oracle, Ingres, Sybase, Informix, etc.  While I have \done a project using Ingres, I cannot help but feel that good old FOCUS is
not that bad a product.  Setting up screens is about 1.E+6 times faster than
in Ingres.   The performance isn't all that bad either.  I've benchmarked
Focus 12 times faster than Datatrieve under VMS.  I've read benchmarks that
had Focus 12 times faster than dBase III in the PC version.

So what's all this leading up to?  Simply this; Information Builders has
several Unix releases out.  Has anyone out there used them?