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From: dror@infmx.UUCP (Dror Matalon)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: ORACLE on the cheap... questions   (LONG)
Keywords: Public relations
Message-ID: <310@infmx.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jul 88 17:57:24 GMT
References: <5165@dasys1.UUCP> <8208@ncoast.UUCP> <178@turbo.oracle.UUCP> <302@infmx.UUCP> <599@hscfvax.harvard.edu>
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Organization: Informix, Menlo Park, Ca. U.S.A.
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In article <599@hscfvax.harvard.edu> pavlov@hscfvax.harvard.edu (G.Pavlov) writes:
>In article <302@infmx.UUCP>, aland@infmx.UUCP (Dr. Scump) writes:
                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> 
>> Quoting RTI's Dave Kellogg: 
>>> ....companies like Relational Technology, Informix, and Oracle employ
>>> literally thousands of people, and each could easily place a designated
>>> "net monitor" to fire back accusations at the other vendors.
>
>   Isn't this already the case (not just dbms vendors) ?  How should one in-
>   terpret the appearance of solitary net "users" from very large companies,
>   usually technically astute, but whose "contributions" invariably
>   boost his/her company's products and with few exceptions denigrates com-
>   petitors' ??  "fire back" misses the boat - I would say that the real dam-
>   age is usually accomplished much more subtly and "professionally".
>   
>   greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst, ny

    Greg,

	Aland (Alan Denny), who posts most of the Informix info, does it on
    his own and with no support from the company. I suspect that Robert 
    Bradbury does the same for Oracle, and others for RTI. I suspect that most 
    of these people , do it on their own because they care about their 
    companies. 
	The last benchmark wars did get a little out of hand, but I seriously 
    doubt that these were a result of corporate strategy to "subtly and 
    professionally denigrate competitors." 
	About a year ago somebody from RTI explained why something that
    was thought of as a bug in our product, was a result of the Relational
    Model, and couldn't be solved in any of the products on the market !!!
	So at least in this news group  I don't think things are that bad.


		Dror

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