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From: de@helios.ucsc.edu (De Clarke)
Subject: [comp.databases] Re: Evaluating Databases
Message-ID: <1991Mar21.195607.17423@ox.com>
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Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1991 19:56:07 GMT
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Archive-name: database/reviews/de-database-summary/1991-03-21
Archive: helios.ucsc.edu:/pub/dbase.summary [128.114.130.37]
Original-posting-by: de@helios.ucsc.edu (De Clarke)
Original-subject: Re: Evaluating Databases
Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN)

So many people (over 100) responded with requests to receive the
UNIX database "gossip sheet" -- now running about 20 laser printed
pages of opinions, slurs, statistics, and so forth -- that I have
decided in self-defence to make it available via anonymous ftp.

The anon ftp server is helios.ucsc.edu, or if your name server is
no better than ours, 128.114.130.37 .

If you don't know what anon ftp is, write and I will send you a brief
instruction sheet.  If you are not on the internet, send mail and
I will mail you the summary.  If you just want your name on the massive
mailing list I am keeping (to alert you if a major new release of the
summary is available later, which I hope will be the case as more
war stories come rolling in), send mail asking to be added. [...]

Feel free to send me more gossip, benchmarks, etc.  This is
an evolving document.

Current topics of interest:  3rd party 4GL interfaces to major
dbases;  GUIs for various windowing systems (mainly Motif and OL);
easy user-programming interfaces including front ends for Macs
and/or PC's.

Thanks again to the net.  Cast your information upon the waters
and it shall be....

de