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From: jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Benchmarks and Real Performance (minor plug for my company)
Message-ID: <851@rtech.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 23-May-87 18:40:54 EDT
Article-I.D.: rtech.851
Posted: Sat May 23 18:40:54 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 24-May-87 10:37:40 EDT
References: <2700@blia.BLI.COM>
Organization: Relational Technology, Alameda CA
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in article <2700@blia.BLI.COM>, forrest@blia.BLI.COM (Jon Forrest) says:
> 
> One way to help remedy this problem is to use a database machine...
> 
> This fact has helped us sell our database machines to places
> that have already bought a software-only RDBMS only to find that
> when push came to shove, what they had wasn't fast enough...
> 
> Jon Forrest

I object to this type of posting.  There have been many times in the past
when I have been tempted to plug Relational Technology in this newsgroup,
but I have always resisted.  To do so would have been inappropriate.
I thought there was a general rule that vendors are not supposed to use the
net to promote their products.  For example, you don't see chip manufacturers
filling up comp.arch with arguments about why their CPUs are better.  I believe
that DBMS vendors' contributions to comp.databases should be purely technical
and as objective as possible.  Without this, the content of the newsgroup
will devolve into propaganda.
-- 
Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
"Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent..."

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