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From: einstein@bucsb.UUCP (David K. Fickes)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Database Company Contacts
Message-ID: <1432@bucsb.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jan 88 20:33:49 GMT
References: <1408@bucsb.UUCP> <30175UH2@PSUVM> <388@bty.UUCP>
Reply-To: einstein@bucsb.bu.edu (David K. Fickes)
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In article <388@bty.UUCP> yost@bty.UUCP (Brian Yost) writes:
>> I think it would be nice if commercial vendors all had a mailbox named
>> "queries", or something. ..... {deleted text}

>
>I agree.  Many decision makers must devote a substantial amount of time and
>effort evaluating the various products.  Technical, low-hype-content articles
>by the database vendors would justify the expense of of the rest of net at
>my site.  Is this appropriate usage of USENET? 

Perhaps a better attack would be to get people who work with the product
volunteer to handle database questions... AND get someone within the company
that sells the product to handle questions such as pricing and such....

So far I've been contacted by two individuals who gave me their sales rep's
Email address, one sales rep who called... and one person who volunteered
to handle the random tech question....

- david-- 
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