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From: angel@adm.BRL.MIL (Rick Angelini)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Aggresive INGRES Corp.
Keywords: Ingres Advertising Comptetitors
Message-ID: <21951@adm.BRL.MIL>
Date: 4 Jan 90 01:06:11 GMT
Reply-To: angel@adm.brl.mil.UUCP (Rick Angelini - BRL/SECAD <angel>)
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Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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Has anyone noticed the change in advertising since "Relational Technology
Inc." became "Ingres Corportation"?   It looks like they are going to
play hardball with their competitors, probably most notably Oracle.

I'm not too familiar with Oracle (or other Rdbms vendors), but Ingres Corp
is really coming down on their sales tactics.    Has anyone had any 
experience with a vendor doing "anything short of lying just to get the
sale" ? (a paraphased quote from one of the new ads)   Does anyone have
an opinion on the new sales approach by Ingres Corp - is it the roar of
a company ready to bust out of the gate, or something else?    What about
the 8 page layout of ads in a recent copy of Digital Review?

Just thought I'd throw this out for discussion .....


Rick <angel@brl.mil>