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- Newsgroups: comp.databases.sybase
- Path: sparky!uunet!fmrco!bmyers
- From: bmyers@fmrco.COM (Brad Myers)
- Subject: Re: large database backups
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.220410.9888@fmrco.uucp>
- Sender: news@fmrco.uucp
- Organization: Fidelity Management and Research Co., Boston, MA
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:04:10 GMT
- Lines: 50
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- In article <1992Dec15.095007.6856@ericsson.se> etxwarz@garbo.ericsson.se writes:
- >
- >I have received some information about a product called 'Quick Dump'.
- >In the advertise they are claiming that it can do:
- >- Database compression
- >- Short run time
- >..and more...
- >- Backup transfer to multiple tapes
- >
- >I haven't used the product but if someone out there uses it, please post some
- >comments about it.
- >
-
- I have not used the product itself, but I know someone who helped to write it,
- and he said that "It corrupted every database we tried it on." This was for
- the beta version; it may (or may not) have been fixed since then.
-
- >
- >The company address:
- >AFIC Computers, Inc
- >14 East 4th Street, Suite 608
- >New York, New York 10012
- >TEL: 212-673-6575
- >FAX: 212-533-5982
- >
- >------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >Goran Schwarz ,,, Ericsson Telecom AB TN/ETX/TX/DF
- >etxwarz@garbo.ericsson.se (.~.) phone: +46 (0)8 7193916
- >------------------------------oOO--(_)--OOo-----------------------------------
-
- I had the fortune (?) to work for this company for a total of two (2) days,
- but did not continue because of contractual disagreements. This may somewhat
- bias my opinion against them, so take that into account.
-
- I found their development practices to be somewhat less than ideal. Several
- people I know in the Sybase community have voiced the opinion that their
- software is not very good, and that they tend to "gamma test" their "production"
- releases. (In other words, the software is released containing known fatal
- bugs).
-
- I do know that their "business" office is a rented condo. Not that that should
- be held against them, by any means.
-
- --Brad. Mele Kikkimalaka!
-
- --
- Bradley Myers | "Why me, John Big Boote?"
- bmyers@fmrco.com | "It might be booby-trapped"
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