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From: ssm@wdl1.UUCP (Samuel S. Michlin)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Ingress -- Sun's version vs. BSD's
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Date: Thu, 16-Jul-87 18:27:17 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 16 18:27:17 1987
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Yes. There are big differences between Sun Ingres and BSD 4.3 Ingres.

Sun is re-distributing RTI's (Relational Technology Inc) Ingres release
5.0 that runs on the Sun, Vax (4.3 & VMS), IBM PC, and other machines.
This software is a full commercial product with many enhancements over
the original BSD Ingres, including: QBF (Query By Forms), ABF (Application
By Forms), RBF (Report By Forms), Report Writer, GBF (Graph By Forms),
VIFRED (Visual Forms Editor), VIGRAPH (Visual Graphics editor), SQL support
(in addition to QUEL), and RTINGRES (a forms based interface to all/most of
the Ingres utilities). It includes many other features and enhancements
such as a front-end / back-end server approach that allows databases to be
distributed among various heterogeneous machines. It is a fully supported
and growing commercial product vs. an unsupported academic research tool.

You may not get ALL of what you pay for (at least not at the same time),
but you will get MUCH more by paying for it NOW than by paying for it
LATER through working harder and longer with a limited, outmoded, and
unsupported "free" product.

	Sam Michlin
	Ford Aerospace & Communications Corp.
	...sun!wdl1!ssm  or ssm@ford-wdl1.arpa