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- From: ifenton@crc.ac.uk (I. Fenton)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases
- Subject: do we really want comp.database.xbase ?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.142636.1735@crc.ac.uk>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 14:26:36 GMT
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- Organization: MRC Human Genome Resource Centre
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- i am obviously in a minority of one here, but...
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- the amount of traffic in this group is not big. i subscribe to a number of
- other groups, many with a lot more postings than this one. i like looking
- at questions such as 'i got a 500k record database, which product should
- i use'. it gets both xbase and paradox and sybase and oracle etc etc people
- saying how their products would relate/perform. also databases are becoming
- more and more cross-platform, so i dont see the need for comp.db.dos,
- comp.db.mac, comp.db.other-system. if there is a technical question about
- a system i dont use i just skip it - how much time does it take for christ's
- sake ? i use the 'rn' reader and i can see all headers immediately, so what
- is the problem with you guys ?
-
- for the record, i am a clipper programmer, a happy one, writing multi-user
- apps on a novell network, and i am interested in other databases that
- could compete, e.g. oracle, ingres, sybase, fox etc etc.
-
- iain
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