Xref: utzoo comp.databases:2653 comp.lang.misc:2992 comp.software-eng:1580 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!xanth!nic.MR.NET!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.lang.misc,comp.software-eng Subject: Re: need help choosing between INGRESS and PROGRESS Message-ID: <13681@ncoast.ORG> Date: 24 May 89 23:15:07 GMT References: <985@resource.UUCP> <309@viusys.UUCP> <241@dlcdev.UUCP> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: comp.databases Distribution: na Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 21 As quoted from <241@dlcdev.UUCP> by phelan@dlcdev.UUCP (Bill Phelan): +--------------- | For less than a hundred bucks, you can get a complete copy of the product | to try on your system. CALL 1-800-FAST4GL and ask for a Test Drive. +--------------- Blatant advertizing. Boo, hiss. ...I was unable to evaluate Progress for our uses because the limit of 4 runs on a Test Drive database is too small. (25 would be adequate for a test. I am _not_ asking for an unlimited-use version.) The use of "crippleware" to evaluate a package is more often than not an exercise in frustration; few such packages have limits that are sufficient to evaluate the product under a "real" workload. ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc allbery@ncoast.org uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu Send comp.sources.misc submissions to comp-sources-misc@ NCoast Public Access UN*X - (216) 781-6201, 300/1200/2400 baud, login: makeuser