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From: pavlov@hscfvax.harvard.edu (G.Pavlov)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Ingres 6.1 out - but for what OS?
Keywords: vendor experience
Message-ID: <708@hscfvax.harvard.edu>
Date: 18 Jan 89 19:46:14 GMT
References: <276@daitc.daitc.mil> <120@indri.primate.wisc.edu> <467@agrigene.UUCP>
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In article <467@agrigene.UUCP>, overby@agrigene.UUCP (Scott Overby) writes:
> In article <120@indri.primate.wisc.edu> bin@primate.wisc.edu writes:
> >From article <276@daitc.daitc.mil>, by jkrueger@daitc.daitc.mil (jkrueger):
> >
> >I would certainly be interested to know:  Do others of you have
> >this same experience?
> 
> We tried Oracle for 30 days and returned it unsatisfied.  We have since
> received mail and an upgrade tape assuming we still had a valid license...

  Our experience was worse.  We tried Oracle and rejected it in favor of 
  Ingres.  But the Oracle salespeople insisted that we hadn't returned their
  tapes, that we therefore had purchased it, and billed us.  This continued
  even after we sent them documentation from UPS, tracing the shipment and
  showing a signature.  The Oracle people refused to confirm whether the sig-
  nature (the name was legible) was that of an actual Oracle employee...

  Up to apx. 3 months ago, we periodically received material (but not tapes)
  from Oracle, assuming we were a customer.  Meanwhile, RTI keeps trying to
  sell us Ingres again.

  May explain some of the sales figures reported by both  :-)

  greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst, ny