Re: Need info on UNIX relational databases
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 09:08:20 GMT
Message-ID: <J17PBCTS_at_cc.swarthmore.edu>
In article <lanmsiINN2j2_at_jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> Jon Roland,
jdr_at_starflight.Corp.Sun.COM writes:
>Ingres Corporation
>1080 Marina Village Parkway
>Alameda, CA 94501 USA
>510/769-1400
>Ingres Relational DBMS
>SQL-based RDBMS
>
>Oracle Corporation
>500 Oracle Parkway MD 40P-690
>Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA
>415/506-7000
>Oracle
>SQL-based RDBMS
>
I am currently being presented with a choice between these two products
for installation on our Ultrix systems. At the moment, our interest is
not based on a particular application, but on the installation of one of
these products to explore its use for internally developed applications
and, most importantly, for educational purposes. Our desktop machines
are
all Macintosh, so support on that end plays a big part (in this respect,
I
know that Oracle offers many MacOS products - I don't know how well they
work in practice).
Any tips on the relative advantages/disadvantages of either product especially relative to performance, market penetration, and support for Macintosh workstations would be much appreciated.
If anyone can point to any recent publications carrying a comparison between these products or a review of one or the other, that would be very helpful and save you some typing.
Glenn Stauffer
Swarthmore College Computing Center
Received on Tue Sep 08 1992 - 11:08:20 CEST