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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Empress pricing policy
Message-ID: <573@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 17 Oct 88 17:14:57 GMT
References: <1988Sep28.150224.26393@lsuc.uucp> <366@telly.UUCP> <4053@hcr.UUCP> <12835@ncoast.UUCP>
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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In article <12835@ncoast.UUCP>, allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
> As quoted from <374@telly.UUCP> by evan@telly.UUCP (Evan Leibovitch):
> +---------------
> | They MAKE a database system, and keeping track of pricing data is too much
> | of a headache? Do these people know how to use their own product?
> +---------------
> 
> I once heard that Ashton-Tate's internal database is written in -=> Unify.
> Companies which don't use their own products aren't a very good argument for
> anyone else using their products....
> 
> ++Brandon

Unless, of course, you are building a product intended for a single-
user small company, and you are a huge multi-user company.  IF your
product is appropriate for your company, you should be using it (it's
a good way to find bugs) -- but it isn't always the case that your
needs are the same as the customer.









-- 
Clayton E. Cramer
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