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From: forrest@blia.BLI.COM (Jon Forrest)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Benchmarks and Real Performance (minor plug for my company)
Message-ID: <2708@blia.BLI.COM>
Date: Mon, 25-May-87 14:41:11 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 25 14:41:11 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 26-May-87 03:27:44 EDT
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In article <851@rtech.UUCP>, jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman) writes:
> 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...
> > 
> 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 don't agree. If there were some reason you thought your product was
better than the competition for technical reasons then I think a posting
would have been in order, especially if you prefaced your posting
title with the fact that it contained a plug for your company. I recently
complained that the ba.seminars was too commercial because seminars
were being announced that had fees that were for more than the cost
of putting on the seminar. Much to my surprise, the responses to my
complaint were not in agreement with me. Apparently, people's
threshold of sensitivity toward commercialness isn't has low as mine.

> 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

Oh yes you do. The point is that the discussion is technical.
If you re-read my posting you will notice that it is actually
discussing one technical advantage of database machines over
software only RDBMS's. I didn't mention any aspects of our database
machine. In fact, since we now have some competition (Teradata, Sybase)
my posting is hardly a plug for Britton Lee. Also notice that I didn't
single out any one software RDBMS.

So, if any of you think that your company's product is better than
the competition I, for one, would like to hear about it. Let's just
try to keep the discussion technical.

Jon Forrest
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