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From: jim@tiamat.fsc.com (Jim O'Connor)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Database Product Facts
Summary: really getting off the subject here (sorry)
Keywords: vendor-offered DBMS information
Message-ID: <381@tiamat.fsc.com>
Date: 8 Feb 89 21:04:22 GMT
References: <2898@sybase.sybase.com> <832@altos86.UUCP>
Organization: Filtration Sciences Corp., Chattanooga, TN
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In article <832@altos86.UUCP>, jon@altos86.UUCP (Jonathan Ma) writes:
> 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.
                                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Boy are these ever NOT THE OPINIONS of his employer.  I recently read an
article in ALTOS WORLD where Altos was anouncing the existence of a new
BBS service where people could log in for support, etc.  I thought this
sounded really nice until I noticed that they wanted $125 to sign up and
$1/minute to access the BBS.  While you're trying to urge people to give
more support for free (via USENET), your employer seems to be thinking up
more ways to make money off their support.

--jim
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James B. O'Connor			jim@FSC.COM
Filtration Sciences Corporation		615/821-4022 x. 651