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From: itkin@bene.UUCP (Steven List)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Benchmarks and Real Performance (minor plug for my company)
Message-ID: <488@bene.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 28-May-87 00:08:54 EDT
Article-I.D.: bene.488
Posted: Thu May 28 00:08:54 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 30-May-87 07:00:38 EDT
References: <2700@blia.BLI.COM> <851@rtech.UUCP> <11872@aero.ARPA>
Reply-To: itkin@bene.UUCP (super-user)
Organization: Benetics Corporation, Mt. View, CA
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In article <11872@aero.ARPA> anderson@aero.UUCP (Tom Anderson) writes:
>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...
>>> 
>>> 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.

Perhaps I'm in the minority, but I don`t mind at all having employees of
various vendors discuss the relative merits of their systems, as well as
having users of those systems discuss them.  I would be very interested
in Tom's evaluation of the differences (note DIFFERENCES not necessarily
better or worse) between various systems in different environments and
for different applications.

We at Benetics have been working with UNIFY for the past five years, and
a number of us (myself included) are extremely knowledgeable about UNIFY
and ACCELL both from the internals and user perspective.  Why should I
not share my impressions and opinions here?  Isn't this a public forum
for discussion?  I don't find Jon`s original posting offensive, nor do I
object to Jeff and Tom's responses.  But I think this is an opportunity
for some interesting and educational exchanges.

So, Tom, please do post your opinions and evaluations.  You don't need
to plug to express an opinion.  And if you find one to be better than
the other in certain circumstances, that may very well benefit me
enormously.  The same goes for Jeff and Jon - go ahead and express
yourselves.  I'm anxious to hear what you have to say.  I might even
express an opinion or two myself somewhere along the way.

Steven