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From: cgregory@ziggy.cs.uiuc.edu (Christine Gregory)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Database Recommendations Sought
Summary: Soliciting opinions
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Date: 28 Jun 91 16:38:19 GMT
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We're "shopping" for new database software.
I'd appreciate any comments, warnings, opinions that anyone
would like to share about the database software that they use/have used.

So, if you feel like getting on a soapbox, now's your chance!  :-)

E-mail preferred.

Criteria:
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Cost
  Although I realize, of course, that "You get what you pay for"
  (Or perhaps, more accurately "You rarely get something you didn't pay for.")

Works across a network
  NFS
  Work between machines that are on different *local* nets?

Works under X and dumb terminals

Number of (Unix & Unix-like) platforms available

Easy to program
  User-friendly from a programmers point-of-view

Friendly user interface
  User-friendly from "Joe User"'s point-of-view

Needs to accomodate at least 50,000 records

Ingres conversion package/program?
  Have old data from ingres database that we'd like to use once we get our new
  package.

Support