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From: anderson@aero.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Benchmarks and Real Performance (minor plug for my company)
Message-ID: <11872@aero.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 26-May-87 14:37:42 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 26 14:37:42 1987
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References: <2700@blia.BLI.COM> <851@rtech.UUCP>
Reply-To: anderson@aero.UUCP (Tom Anderson)
Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
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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...
>> 
>> 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.
> ....
>-- 
>Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
I too object, especially to the blattenly misleading advertizement.
I use several Britton Lee's in different os environments; I also use
RTI's INGRES and Oracle's ORACLE, in addition to another dozen products.
AND I REFRAIN ALWAYS FROM PLUGGING ONE OVER THE OTHER IN GENERAL DISCUSSION!!
I ESPECIALLY NEVER COMPARE APPLES AND ORANGES - H/W DBMS AND S/W DBMS.
I can speak clearly on the similarities and differences between features,
and can provide reasonable measures of performance for specific configurations.

BETTER is a relative that only makes sense for well described environments.

I agree with Jeff that this forum is for discussion of database technologies.

I wonder why it is instead used for requesting ridiculous survey results,
with even less substantial advertisements in response.