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From: dan@speedy.wisc.edu (Dan Frank)
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Subject: Re: Informix an RDBMS?
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Date: 22 Mar 89 13:17:21 GMT
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In article <2739@rtech.rtech.com> davek@rtech.UUCP (Dave Kellogg) writes:
>In article <217@zeek.UUCP> larry@zeek.UUCP (Larry Podmolik) writes:
>> He then said Informix had "honorary mention" in that
>>group because it was a relational interface built on top of a non-
>>relational (C-ISAM) engine.  (BTW, neither Unify nor Ingres was
>>mentioned at all.)
>>
>I'm not sure what they guy is talking about and would appreciate a solid
>reference to the article so I can check it out.

   I believe the article was in PC Week, the weekly offering of the PC
Cargo Cult.  The interviewee (Fabian Pascal, I think) felt that Informix
was non-relational because a progammer could utilize the C-ISAM interface
to circumvent security and integrity constraints of the relational schema.

   It's a good thing we have consultants to warn us of such things.

   -- Dan