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From: monty@delphi.uchicago.edu (Monty Mullig)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Referential Integrity in commercial DBMS's?
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Date: 14 Sep 89 15:25:36 GMT
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i can't believe that rti would announce yet another release of their
product while their current product has known backend stability
problems.  in fact, we're too frightened of 6.x backend horror stories
from the VMS sites here on campus to upgrade from 5.0 on our Unix
machines.  i really dislike what seems to me to be a habit of RTI's of
announcing new products with wildly optimistic delivery dates (this
quarter for 7.0 ??!!), delivering very late, buggy products, and then
immediately announcing new versions before the current bugs are fixed.

sorry if this posting offends anyone at rti, but you've got to realize
how unbelievable it sounds to us that you'd already be announcing a
new release of your product.

--monty