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From: graham@hslrswi.UUCP (Graham Tritt)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Ingres, Oracle and Rdb evaluation
Message-ID: <607@hslrswi.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 20-May-87 09:53:24 EDT
Article-I.D.: hslrswi.607
Posted: Wed May 20 09:53:24 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 23-May-87 14:34:30 EDT
References: <2097@cwruecmp.UUCP>
Reply-To: graham@hslrswi.UUCP (Graham Tritt)
Organization: Hasler AG, Berne, Switzerland
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Keywords: Ingres, Oracle, Rdb

In article <2097@cwruecmp.UUCP> Tarkeshwar Shrimali
(shrimali@cwruecmp.UUCP) writes:
>     I am evaluating Oracle, Ingres and Rdb for a Vax 8250. If any of
>you have done a similar exercise or have experience with either of these
>products, I'll appreciate hearing from you.
>     shrimali@case   -via csnet

I wonder if someone doesn't reliably store and recall such
questions and answers!  By some chance, I extracted such an evaluation
from David Trueman of Microtel Pacific Research posted Nov 27 1985.

Mark Savage of Affinitec St Louis mas@afinitc.uucp summarized replies
in June 1985 to his questions on relational databases for PCs and
UNIX.  This also contained a useful criteria list and comments on
INGRES, INFORMIX, MISTRESS, etc.  

Other sources for evaluations are Datapro reports and Hardcopy magazine
(DEC users) June 86, occasional DATAMATION and MINI-MICRO-SYSTEMS;
I'm sure others on the net can suggest more, and give comments based
on experience.

I have mailed the the source that I have stored for David's posting
to shrimali@cwruecmp.UUCP. But perhaps it is out-of-date by now.

We haven't any major use for a database ourselves but from time to
time have to point others here in the right direction.

At the moment we need a portable VMS/UNIX relational database for a
simple application and I wonder if databases like ORACLE and INFORMIX
are overkill.  How can I explain why DEC RDB (or even DBMS) is not
the best answer?

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