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From: steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Benchmark Discussions
Keywords: much talk about not much
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Date: 21 Jul 88 15:00:47 GMT
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As a general observation on the recent intense discussions on
benchmarking, I suspect that many of us don't get involved in
benchmarking, the database software we use was generally
chosen for other reasons and in any case we are stuck with
what we've got. In my case, "stuck" is the right word. I won't
mention the name of the junk we're forced to use, but it
begins with an I and ends with 5.0; it's the worst piece of
commercial software I've ever used and extremely expensive to
operate to boot (no pun intended). Admittedly, I haven't used
any of its competitors. Personally, I've downloaded as much of my
database as I can from a Vax 8650 into a Mac II to save huge
quantities of money and time.

Maybe a comp.databases.benchmark is in order so that this
group can focus more on the hows and whys of databases
and the hype war can have its own place.

Steve Goldfield