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From: jon@altos86.UUCP (Jonathan Ma)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: ORACLE REL 6, INGRES REL 6
Keywords: ORACLE, INGRES, RELEASE 6
Message-ID: <1104@altos86.UUCP>
Date: 12 May 89 00:46:06 GMT
References: <1588@bilpin.UUCP>
Reply-To: jon@altos86.UUCP (Jonathan Ma)
Organization: Altos Computer Systems, San Jose, CA
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In article <1588@bilpin.UUCP> nick@bilpin.UUCP (Nick Price) writes:
>Here's another thought -- Many multi-processor Unix machines are
>appearing on the market now, both loosley coupled (NCR Tower 8XX),
>and tightly coupled (Sequent), to mention just two. In my experience
>RDBMS performance can become an issue in such an environment, 
>particularly where bottle-necks are introduced by a single server
>architecture. Shared memory accesses between processors is another
>cause for concern. Anybody else want to share their thoughts.

I strongly agree that DBMS should not be a "porting" effort to some
hardware platform.  The DBMS product should be enhanced and tuned
for each specific platform.

In the last two years, many computer manufacturers announced joint
development agreement with various DBMS vendors.  I'm sure everyone
knows that's his best defense against the competitors.  I'm glad
that my employer is one of them, and I'm in it.  

I'm pretty sure that the future of DBMS is in object-oriented, 
X-window driven, valued-added DBMS.  I can't wait to see how this
revolution will turn the industry around.

-Jon-					Jonathan Ma, Altos Computer Systems

			UUCP: {sun,pyramid,amdahl}!altos86!jon
			Disclaimer: those views are mine, not my employers.