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From: pavlov@hscfvax.harvard.edu (G.Pavlov)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Ingres is making me mad!!
Keywords: ingres 4.3bsd
Message-ID: <741@hscfvax.harvard.edu>
Date: 11 Mar 89 06:45:07 GMT
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Organization: Health Sciences Computing Facility, Harvard University
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In article <610@manta.NOSC.MIL>, vollmer@manta.NOSC.MIL (Tom Vollmer) writes:
> 
> Summarizing the proposed reasons we have seen so far for RT Ingres not
> porting their 6.x release to 4.3BSD:
> 
> 1.  There is not enough UNIX 4.3BSD market for Ingres licenses
>     currently or in the future as RT sees it.
> 2.  There are the technical problems of shared memory with 4.3BSD.
> 3.  Current and future business opportunties with DEC mandate
>     weak support for future BSD releases.
> 4.  BSD Unix is not "vendor" supported and thus a problem.

  Let me add a few more:

  5.  RTI doesn't do ports when the moon is full, and the schedule called for
      the BSD port to start during a full moon;
  6.  RTI hates the Naval Observatory;
  7.  RTI has the sadistic bent of liking to see its customer base twisting in
      the wind.

  - e.g., just `cause you saw it in "print" here don't mean that it is true.

  My own experience is that RTI is more forthright than most companies regar-
  ding decisions that are driven by marketing.  You should take a close look at
  recent user group meeting transcripts.

  greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst, ny