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   From: datagoob@hotmail.com   
      
   Jim Kennedy wrote:   
   > So I guess years of using and having experience with Oracle, DB2, Ingres,   
   > Sybase, Sql Server, XDB, SQL Base (Centura), Btrive, dBase (padadox,   
   > CLipper, Foxpro),my SQL, Isam and others is just too narrow an experience.   
   > I as far as I remember Goob is a pile of mess of buggers.  At least my kids   
   > say so.   
   > Jim   
   >   
      
   boogers not buggers.   
      
   Goob would be goobers, etc.   
      
   Again, thanks for your comments.  According to your list, most of the databases   
   you have had experience with are gone and practically forgotten.  Most if not   
   all of them are very simple in comparison to Oracle, not even in the same   
   category.   
   Paradox is gone. Foxpro lives on, and .dbf files live on in many phone dialers   
   to this   
   day.  Sybase is trying to make a comeback, SQL-Server is so not interesting   
   because of   
   Sybase.  The only one you mentioned with any glamour would be Ingres.   
      
   Interesting to have read a little of that book I mentioned, "SOFTWAR", about   
   Ellison,   
   and what he thought of Ingres--he was very impressed according to the author,   
   with   
   Dr. Stonebreaker and how good the engineering was in Ingres.  It's enough of a   
   statement to get me interested in Ingres again--there may be something there to   
   use in a business context--and certainly for the person with the original post   
   to this thread.   
      
   Thanks Jim, I'll be waiting for your review of Empress, the only one you   
   seemed to have missed--er well their was Progress too.... so many players,   
   so little left to choose from.   
      
   >   
   > "Data Goob"  wrote in message   
   > news:Zs4Yc.1$QY2.0@fe55.usenetserver.com...   
   >   
   >>Jim,   
   >>   
   >>Thanks for your comments.  I disagree that I'm 'completely' wrong, but it   
   >>doesn't really matter, I'm not using Oracle.  Oracle is a beast of a pig   
   >>all the way around, but you would only know that if you used something   
   >>besides Oracle.  Oracle has excellent marketing, pay no attention to the   
   >>man behind the curtain.   
   >>   
   >>Thanks!   
   >>   
   >>Jim Kennedy wrote:   
   >>   
      
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