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From: throopw@rtp47.UUCP (Wayne Throop)
Newsgroups: net.database
Subject: Re: UNIX dbms
Message-ID: <150@rtp47.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 16:00:49 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 19 16:00:49 1985
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In article <776@dataio.UUCP> olson@dataio.UUCP (Darryl Olson) writes:
>In article <589@hlwpc.UUCP> kmk@hlwpc.UUCP (Ken Keyzer) writes:
>>>Let's start with something simple :-) 
>>>	What is the best UNIX database management system?  Why?
>>>
>
>Best relative to what criteria?  I prefer that we start by defining a set
>of criteria to evaluate dbms before we start publishing the results of our
>evaluations.
>
>Darryl Olson
>... uw-beaver!teltone!dataio!olson
>

I expect that the criteria for the evaluation were the "Why?" part of the
question.  Thus, this survey can kill several birds with one posting
(or, as it turned out, three postings), by getting evaluations along with
evaluation strategies.
-- 
Wayne Throop at Data General, RTP, NC
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