Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hscfvax!pavlov
From: pavlov@hscfvax.harvard.edu (G.Pavlov)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Soliciting comments on Oracle and RDM
Message-ID: <533@hscfvax.harvard.edu>
Date: 12 Mar 88 06:52:10 GMT
References: <188@forgen.UUCP>
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In article <188@forgen.UUCP>, jim@forgen.UUCP (Jim Hood) writes:
> I would be interested in receiving comments from people who have
> had good or bad experiences with either "Oracle" or "RDM".......
> Oracle and RDM are of interest because they both have MS-DOS
> and VMS versions; if there are others that also fall in this catagory
> I would be receptive to comments. 

  Relational Technology's Ingres also runs on minis and MS-DOS machines; we
  chose it over Oracle.  RTI doesn't advertise as much and is apparently 
  not as adept at catching the attention of the "analyst" crowd, but we 
  chose not to hold that against the company ...

    greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst, ny