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From: pavlov@hscfvax.harvard.edu (G.Pavlov)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Sun 4 DBMS Query
Message-ID: <645@hscfvax.harvard.edu>
Date: 22 Oct 88 20:27:49 GMT
References: <460@oracle.UUCP>
Organization: Health Sciences Computing Facility, Harvard University
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In article <460@oracle.UUCP>, jdiaz@oracle.uucp (Jean Marie Diaz) writes:
>    From: aland@infmx.UUCP (Dr. Scump)
>    Date: 20 Oct 88 03:24:44 GMT
>    In article <46@necbsd.NEC.COM>, baker@necbsd.NEC.COM (L. BAKER) writes:
>    | 
>    | We are currently evaluating various DBMS products for use on a SUN 4/280
>    | datacenter.  We'd tentatively decided on Oracle, but just found out
>    | that Oracle doesn't plan to have their product ported to the Sun 4
>    | until March!
> 
>    I thought I read somewhere that they planned to complete their ports
>    to all platforms within 90 days of their first (VMS?) port of each
>    given new release ??
> 
   One problem when you promise to run on anything and everything is that you
   fall into the black hole called "vaporware".  There are dbms's running on
   the Sun4, including Unify and Ingres.  We have been evaluationg the latter
   on a Sun4; seems to be very solid so far.

   greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst (NOT Harvard), NY