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From: plav@cup.portal.com (Rick M Plavnicky)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Focus
Message-ID: <20692@cup.portal.com>
Date: 23 Jul 89 13:24:44 GMT
References: <835@lakesys.UUCP>
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In article <835@lakesys.UUCP>, davef@lakesys.UUCP (Dave Fenske) writes:

>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
>  [subjective performance descriptions deleted]
>[they have] several Unix releases out.  Has anyone out there used them?

Dave, I haven't used any of IBI's UNIX products, but I've had a good deal
of experience with their PC product and some with a couple of their mainframe
products.  They *all* seem to perform quite nicely with a consistancy across
platforms.  I've dealt with IBI's tech folks over the phone and in person, and
they are competent and knowledgeable.

If their UNIX product is any different, I'd be *very* surprised!


Rick Plavnicky
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