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From: toms@utoday.com (Tom Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Database related magazines & UNIX workstations
Keywords: magazines workstations rdbms
Message-ID: <1991Feb27.010205.9301@utoday.com>
Date: 27 Feb 91 01:02:05 GMT
References: <1991Feb25.175924.29673@DRD.Com>
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Organization: UNIX Today!
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In article <1991Feb25.175924.29673@DRD.Com> mark@drd.Com (Mark Lawrence) writes:
>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

I am not sure who publishes this magazine :-) but Unix Today! recently
had an article discussing just these type of RDBMS's.  I believe it
was the December 10th or so issue.  The byline is Julie Anderson's.

Tom Smith