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From: elgie@canisius.UUCP (Bill Elgie)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Ingres vs Sybase
Message-ID: <2367@canisius.UUCP>
Date: 22 May 89 01:25:29 GMT
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In article <13656@ncoast.ORG>, allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
> Oh -- on a slightly different tack, I was amused to note that there are
> *three* front-ends available for Oracle aside from Oracle's own:
> Accell/SQL, For-Ten (who?) and Progress (well, it's "in development").
> Quite a damning statement about SQL*Forms, if you ask me....  

  Well, I never thought much of SQL*Forms.  But I think that what we are 
  seeing - front ends tacked on to other vendors' dbms's - will become
  increasingly widespread.  My guess is that Oracle is being targeted early
  on mainly because of its large installed base.

  greg pavlov (under borrowed account), fstrf, amherst, ny