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From: jfjr@mitre-bedford.ARPA (Jerome Freedman)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Benchmark Discussions
Keywords: much talk about not much
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Date: 22 Jul 88 19:10:17 GMT
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In article <12378@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield) writes:
>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 

  After a micro career change I am getting involved in database
  work and I am VERY interested in benchmarking. I am sorry
  I missed the last discussions. 

>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).

  I tend to agree - the I word is yesterdays technology today
  the SunIword product doesn't even fully support the sun console
  (I don't mean suntools I mean the bare console)


>
>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

   I'd love too



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