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From: clh@tacitus.tfic.bc.ca (Chris Hermansen)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Client/Server processes and implementations
Keywords: Client Server Processes
Message-ID: <126@tacitus.tfic.bc.ca>
Date: 20 Nov 89 16:08:05 GMT
References: <2184@kodak.UUCP> <6895@sybase.sybase.com> <122@tacitus.tfic.bc.ca> <7037@sybase.sybase.com> <125@tacitus.tfic.bc.ca> <7134@sybase.sybase.com> <666@dgis.dtic.dla.mil>
Reply-To: clh@tacitus.UUCP (Chris Hermansen)
Organization: Timberline Forest Inventory Consultants, Vancouver BC
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In article <666@dgis.dtic.dla.mil> jkrueger@dgis.dtic.dla.mil (Jon) writes:
>dg@sisyphus.sybase.com (David Gould) writes:
>
>>'exactly how much measurable benefit ...'. This is of course proprietary
>>information
>
>For you, perhaps.  Some of your competitors can substantiate their
>performance claims with DATA.

Thanks, Jon.  I was beginning to worry about becoming some kind of tight-ass
in my old age :-).

As I tried to emphasize by my `measurable benefit' question: design is one
thing, performance is another.  I had a car with four-wheel independent
suspension not to long ago; the car I have now has a beam rear axle.  Guess
which one handles better and is more fun to drive - surprise! not the
`theoretically better' one.  And honest! I'm not trying to accuse Sybase of
having an inferior product; I just don't like unsubstantiated performance
claims.

Never go to a snake-oil salesman to study herpetology.

Chris Hermansen                         Timberline Forest Inventory Consultants
Voice: 1 604 733 0731                   302 - 958 West 8th Avenue
FAX:   1 604 733 0634                   Vancouver B.C. CANADA
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