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- From: drew@objy.com (Drew Wade)
- Subject: Re: OODB Experiences/Opinions (Objectivity)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.073310.13832@objy.com>
- Organization: Objectivity Inc.
- References: <bem.713721261@stone.NSD.3Com.COM> <1992Aug14.191216.20576@slc.com> <1992Aug17.221704.17350@odi.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 07:33:10 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug17.221704.17350@odi.com> dlw@odi.com writes:
- >In article <1992Aug14.191216.20576@slc.com> marcs@slc.com (Marc San Soucie) writes:
- >
- > > Journal of Object Oriented Programming. June 92. pp 27-43.
- >
- > 3. It appears that not all of the products were evaluated with equal rigor.
- > At least one of the evaluations appears to be based upon an evaluation copy
- > of the product, which was available to the authorUs for a period of one
- > month in early 1991. Evaluation of other products were based upon extensive
- > use. What is often apparent after extensive use is often not apparent
- > during a one month evaluation - for example usability, scalability and
- > robustness.
- >
- >I'd like to go even farther than Jacob and Marc. From reading the
- >article, I did not get the impression that the authors did a one month
- >evaluation on each of the OODBMS's they describe. It strongly
- >appeared to me that for most of the products, they simply read the
- >manual. People reading the article should keep in mind the inherent
- >limitations of an evaluation that's not based on actual use.
- >
-
- I'll go yet farther...they didn't even read our manual! We weren't
- in the report. Oh, well...
-
- -drew wade
- objectivity, inc.
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- Drew Wade
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