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From: peter@utah-gr.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Benchmarks and Real Performance (minor plug for my company)
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Date: Thu, 28-May-87 03:59:38 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 28 03:59:38 1987
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Reply-To: peter@utah-gr.UUCP (Peter S. Ford)
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I don't think this article was out of line with respect to the "no
advertising" understanding (rules wrt usenet postings? you have got to
be kidding).  It did contain some factual info, and contained a line of
reasoning.   The point could have been made stronger (my opinion, see
disclaimer below) but more importantly it was made in general terms, 
and did not isolate Britton Lee as THE solution, just as AN example solution.
I don't  see that it is different from somebody (whether related or not
to X or Y) claiming system X does 14 phony baloney transactions per
second, while system Y does 12.

My view on usenet is  that it is pamphleteering in
the high tech age.  If somebody gets too far out of line wrt
advertising or blithering they will be cut off, some how, some way. 
I think some advertising should be allowed; everyone would
like to hear about new features/performance figures/etc even if it is
from the horses mouth.  As long as the data is "fair", and all parties
can be heard, things should work out fine.  I guess we could have
advertising rot 13'd.

Anyways, keep those data base wars going.  

Disclaimer:  I used to work for Britton Lee (before Mr. Forrest's time), 
have friends that work at Sybase, and think the Teradata machine is pretty 
neat (and strange).   Database machines seem like a good idea to me, what
do the people squacking about advertising think about them?  Shouldn't the
articles on advertising in comp.databases have been posted in 
news.discussions.advertising(just wondering, this renaming has got me confused)?