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From: brianc@daedalus (Brian Colfer)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Focus
Summary: Booo Hissss
Message-ID: <2246@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu>
Date: 25 Jul 89 20:16:29 GMT
References: <835@lakesys.UUCP> <20692@cup.portal.com>
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Reply-To: brianc@daedalus.ucsf.edu (Brian Colfer)
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In article <20692@cup.portal.com> plav@cup.portal.com (Rick M Plavnicky) writes:
>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.  

FOCUS is not a relational database system and for all the reasons I
want a relational system are the reasons I don't want FOCUS!

>>[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.

There are others which also do this... and are relational.
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