de@helios.ucsc.edu (De Clarke) (03/22/91)
Archive-name: database/reviews/de-database-summary/1991-03-21 Archive: helios.ucsc.edu:/pub/dbase.summary [128.114.130.37] Original-posting-by: de@helios.ucsc.edu (De Clarke) Original-subject: Re: Evaluating Databases Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) So many people (over 100) responded with requests to receive the UNIX database "gossip sheet" -- now running about 20 laser printed pages of opinions, slurs, statistics, and so forth -- that I have decided in self-defence to make it available via anonymous ftp. The anon ftp server is helios.ucsc.edu, or if your name server is no better than ours, 128.114.130.37 . If you don't know what anon ftp is, write and I will send you a brief instruction sheet. If you are not on the internet, send mail and I will mail you the summary. If you just want your name on the massive mailing list I am keeping (to alert you if a major new release of the summary is available later, which I hope will be the case as more war stories come rolling in), send mail asking to be added. [...] Feel free to send me more gossip, benchmarks, etc. This is an evolving document. Current topics of interest: 3rd party 4GL interfaces to major dbases; GUIs for various windowing systems (mainly Motif and OL); easy user-programming interfaces including front ends for Macs and/or PC's. Thanks again to the net. Cast your information upon the waters and it shall be.... de