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From: mark@DRD.Com (Mark Lawrence)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Database related magazines & UNIX workstations
Keywords: magazines workstations rdbms
Message-ID: <1991Feb25.175924.29673@DRD.Com>
Date: 25 Feb 91 17:59:24 GMT
Reply-To: mark@drd.Com (Mark Lawrence)
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I'm in the middle of an evaluation of an rdbms for a UNIX workstation
(Sun, DEC, IBM, H-P) based application and I'm discovering a paucity
of technical information on currently available rdbms's in the relevent
trade journals for this particular class of platforms.  I'm thinking in
particular of a head to head evaluation of Ingres, Oracle, Sybase, Unify,
Progress and Informix.  I don't care about Dbase, Clipper, FoxPro,
xdb, et al.  We take:

  _Database_Programming_&_Design_ (Miller Freeman)
  _DBMS_ (M&T Publishing) 

and neither of these has any of the in-depth comparison articles about
rdbms's on UNIX workstation platforms that I've come to expect of PC
Digest, PC Week and Byte for PC databases.  They seem to be more oriented
to the extremes (mainframe/mini or PC).  These are pay for play
magazines, too, so they're supposed to be fairly independent.

Can anybody point me to some publications which do these kind of reviews
and make "Editor's Choice" kinds of awards?  If not, there seems to be a
real hole here that some magazine publisher needs to fill.
-- 
mark@drd.com
mark@jnoc.go.jp    $B!J%^!<%/!&%i%l%s%9!K(B   Nihil novum sub solem


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