Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!egvideo!timk
From: timk@egvideo.UUCP (Tim Kuehn)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Database Survey
Keywords: Survey of user opinion
Message-ID: <2035@egvideo.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jun 89 04:00:00 GMT
Reply-To: timk@egvideo.UUCP (Tim Kuehn)
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I am doing an informal survey of the various dbase III/+ type database
packages out in the world today and what their users think of them. As this
is not anything near formal all comments are welcome - from ease of 
programmability to speed to thoughts about the company (no excessively
long flames though please!). Essentially I'm interested in what you, the user
community thinks about the various packages. Some applicable questions I can
think of to consider would be:

1) Speed
2) Ease of programming
3) Package reliability
4) Responsiveness of the manufacturer to user input
5) Manufacturer support
6) User interface from a programmer's and end user's perspective
7) Cost effectiveness (were the features/functionality it gave you 
	worth the $$$ you shelled out for it?) 
8) Portability - application in single-user and multi-user environemnts
	(read Novell/networking and/or Xenix) and how easy was it to port 
	between them.
9) Other catagories you may think of.

Please feel free to express any and all thoughts you have on the packages
you've ACTUALLY used. (Opinions about the recent A-T/Fox SW legal proceedings
aren't really relavent to this since I'm only looking for information on the 
DBMS from an applications standpoint. If you disagree with this feel free to 
say so).

If enough people respond to this I'll summarize to the net.

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