Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!yarra!melba.bby.oz.au!leo!pcm From: pcm@bby.oz (Paul C. McLeish) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: Oracle vs. Ingres (UNIX) Message-ID: Date: 22 Aug 90 02:33:17 GMT References: <1927@unsvax.NEVADA.EDU> Sender: news@melba.bby.oz.au Organization: Burdett, Buckeridge and Young Ltd. Lines: 21 In-Reply-To: davidg@uns-helios.nevada.edu's message of 17 Aug 90 07:28:48 GMT In article <1927@unsvax.NEVADA.EDU> davidg@uns-helios.nevada.edu (DAVID GONZALES) writes: We are currently planning on purchasing either Oracle or Ingres to run on a Sun SparcStation. Anyone care to comment on one or both of these products? One has a simple forms package and one is a simple forms package. Its has been rumored that the best platform for Oracle is a slide projector. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Paul McLeish, Burdett Buckeridge & Young Ltd, Melbourne, Australia Internet: pcm@melba.bby.oz.au non-MX: pcm%melba.bby.oz@uunet.uu.net Uucp: {uunet,mnetor,pyramid,ubc-vision,ukc,mcvax,...}!munnari!melba.bby.oz!pcm Phone: +61 3 614 8922 Fax: +61 3 614 8742 "It takes 3 pigs with dermatitis to make one packet of pork scratchings" Who Dares Wins