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- From: tmhoff@oogoody.Corp.Sun.COM (Todd Hoff)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases
- Subject: Re: OODB Experiences/Opinions (Objectivity
- Message-ID: <l97gf2INN214@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 16:01:38 GMT
- References: <1992Aug20.073310.13832@objy.com>
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- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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- >
- >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
-
- APOLOGY ON
-
- I'd like to be somewhat of an apologist for product reviewers. I don't
- condone sloppy work, but as someone who has written several product reviews
- I can attest that it is not easy to do a good thorough review. First
- the pay is lousy. To put the time in to do a good review of a complex
- product means you get a small $/hr reward for your hard work. Second,
- often your deadlines are tight for a variety of reasons. Third,
- many products make it hard to do a good review. The manuals suck, problems
- with installations can suck up all you review time, the company can be slow
- in sending you the product in the first place and slow to send out
- bug fixes, you may run into bugs that further sap your time, no decent example
- code is sent, etc.,etc.. The actual writing of a review is tough as well.
- Do you do "aw shucks" approach? Do create a giagantic attribute matrix and
- spend every minute of your week filling it out? Do you just give general
- impressions? Do you spend the time to try and find people who have used the product?
-
- Software producers should make it easy to a review. They should make a
- quality product that at least installs $#%! cleanly. Comparisons to othe
- products should already be made and in the product documentation. Much
- example code should be included, the kind of code someone needs to do
- a good review. Have good documentation. If all the above and more is done
- then people can concentrate on doing real reviews and not just fighting
- fires all the time.
-
- APOLOGY OFF
-
- Hope this helps.
-