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From: jon@altos86.UUCP (Jonathan Ma)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Database Product Facts
Keywords: vendor-offered DBMS information
Message-ID: <832@altos86.UUCP>
Date: 7 Feb 89 16:57:44 GMT
References: <2898@sybase.sybase.com>
Reply-To: jon@altos86.UUCP (Jonathan Ma)
Followup-To: comp.databases
Organization: Altos Computer Systems, San Jose, CA
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In article <2898@sybase.sybase.com> tim@sybase.com (Tim Wood) writes:
>This is a personal plea to all current and prospective DBMS users on USENET: 
>please consider whether the question you are about to ask the USENET
>about a specific product could be answered by the vendor of that 
>product.  
>[...]
	I believe some people has tried to plea the vendors to have USENET support
	a few months ago.  There were a few people from Informix, Oracle, RTI, and
	Sybase tried to be more helpful volutarily.  Personally, this is a very
	good idea to take advantage of the USENET community to explain the
	functionality, features, and other things, so that we can all benefit from
	the discussion.
	I'd like to see more of the same things from DBMS practitioners (not just
	developers).  Any VARs on the NET?

	-Jon-			UUCP: {sun,pyramid}!altos86!jon

	Disclaimer: those openions are mine alone, not my employer's.