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From: cuccia@ucbarpa.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: INGRES for PC
Message-ID: <18456@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Sun, 19-Apr-87 00:03:27 EST
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Posted: Sun Apr 19 00:03:27 1987
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Keywords: RTI's contradictory statements...

In article <271@pyuxv.UUCP> cim2@pyuxv.UUCP (Robert L. Fair) writes:
>The INGRES vendors (RTI) recently did a PC-INGRES demo here, and,
>contrary to previous postings on the net, it is NOT full INGRES.
>Specifically: 
>	NO ABF
>	NO RBF (really!)
>	NO GBF
>	NO Multi Statement Transactions
>	NO Journaling/Recovery

>Personally, the last two make it a totally unacceptable product.
>As I said - this info came directly from the RTI salesman & tech rep.

>On marketing/pricing, RTI said they were only interested  in corperate 
>licences, and were pricing the product to keep 'mom & pop shops' (quote)
>from buying PC-INGRES, probably over $1500. nuff said.

>Robert L. Fair

I was the person who made the initial statements about price and
contents of PC-INGRES, information that I received from RTI technical
staff.  In fact, I was impressed by the performance of ABF on the
Compaq '286 clone, certainly better than our VAX 785 during most
times of the day.

I guess the one true answer for this question should come from somebody
from RTI.

Hello?  RTI?  You guys out there?

A lonely voice in the electronic wilderness,
--Nick