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From: markd@rtech.UUCP (Mark P. Diamond,4th Floor NW. Cor.,3324,4156548275,universe(ucb))
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Ingres is making me mad!!
Message-ID: <2714@rtech.rtech.com>
Date: 11 Mar 89 01:52:26 GMT
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From article <610@manta.NOSC.MIL>, by vollmer@manta.NOSC.MIL (Tom Vollmer):
> 
> I think the reason the RT position is so hard to accept is to those of
> us who work with BSD so sucessfully everyday, its hard to understand
> why a BSD market would not be attractive.  

INGRES Version 6 is an entirely re-architected product. As Dave Brower
mentioned earlier, shared memory is a cornerstone of the new
architecture.  If there were an easy way to work around this, as
Dave mentioned RTI would be happy to do it.  This is not so much
a marketing decision as an engineering decision on future technology. 
I would hazzard a guess that a "fix" so that Version 6 could run on systems
without shared memory would be deadfully slow at best, unaccomplishable at worst.

Mark <>

Mark P. Diamond    {amdahl,mtxinu,sun,hoptoad}!rtech!markd markd@rtech.com 
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