Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!canisius!pavlov From: pavlov@canisius.UUCP (Greg Pavlov) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: Ingres - Windows 4GL - Barcodes Message-ID: <3224@canisius.UUCP> Date: 24 Feb 91 22:46:53 GMT References: <1991Feb22.102605@IASTATE.EDU> Organization: Canisius College, Buffalo N.Y. 14208 Lines: 42 In article <1991Feb22.102605@IASTATE.EDU>, beveland@IASTATE.EDU (Eveland Bruce R) writes: > > Greetings! I'm in need of talking to someone that has a fair size > application up on Ingres running under ULTRIX to find out what its > capabilities are. .... > ... what software one might use to print out Barcodes from a DECstation > running ULTRIX and could this be done from Ingres ... > Our fair size application: apx. 400 tables, consuming apx. 1.2 GB disk, on DEC RISC ULTRIX (DECSystem 5000 as server, DECSystem 5000s, 3100s, and a 5400 as clients). INGRES's "capabilities": after a solid year of patches, upgrades, and a huge amount of wasted work we are STILL experiencing daily server "hangs", "crashes", and lost communication to clients. Some retrievals simply don't work. The "management tools" are inadequate. INGRES tech support is working hard. They have seen the problems first hand, have dialed to examine problems when they have occurred, and taken information from us to replicate them internally. Bugs have been iden- tified and (hopefully) someone is working on them. So eventually, Real Soon Now, we will have a functional "production-quality" DBMS. But: ASK management's "capabilities": when our financial sponsors finally lost patience and addressed their concerns to the upper layers of ASK corpor- ate, the initial response was that a) INGRES was fine, b) inferred that the problems may be/probably are of our own doing and c), complained about my "behavior" towards some ASK VP (or whatever the title..). Fortunately for me personally, this disinformation gambit didn't work, our sponsors insisted on additional action, and the effort to clean this port up seems to have picked up quite a bit. The "message" here is that if you do go ahead and run into trouble, you may find yourself in a rather precarious situation career-wise... greg pavlov pavlov@stewart.fstrf.org Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com