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Conference ulysse::rdb_vms_competition

Title:DEC Rdb against the World
Moderator:HERON::GODFRIND
Created:Fri Jun 12 1987
Last Modified:Thu Feb 23 1995
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1348
Total number of notes:5438

833.0. "DR Target Awards" by MBALDY::LANGSTON (assimpleaspossiblebutnotsimplr) Tue Dec 18 1990 21:38

Does anybody know how the Digital Review Target Awards turned out?
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833.1Rdb is #1NOVA::NEEDLEMANno good deed goes unpunishedWed Dec 19 1990 16:3610
    Yes   ;-)
    
    Now to the unasked question:
    
    The winners tied for 1st place are Rdb/VMS and Ingres.
    
    Not bad, our VMS and ULTRIX dbs were winners. Sell them proudly.
    
    Barry
    
833.2NZOV01::HOWARDNZ: Where Digital's Week BeginsFri Dec 21 1990 05:033
    Now to the other unasked question:
    
    What were the criteria?
833.3None TRCO01::MCMULLENKen McMullenThu Dec 27 1990 18:064
    What ever company could get the most employees and customers to write
    in. Really, that's how you win.
    
    Ken
833.4Does "digital today" know or care?MBALDY::LANGSTONassimpleaspossiblebutnotsimplrThu Jan 31 1991 20:0446
Obviously, the word still has not spread to all internal groups that databases
in general, and Rdb soecifically, are important to our customers.  Anyone care
to join me in suggesting as much to the editors of "digital today," a newspaper
primarily for the U.S. Field organization? 

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                                        Date:     31-Jan-1991 10:23am PST
                                        From:     Bruce Langston @LAO
                                                  LANGSTON.BRUCE
                                        Dept:     Software Services
                                        Tel No:   DTN 568-2661  (213) 229-2661

TO:  Remote Addressee                     ( NEWS @OGO )


Subject: VAX Rdb/VMS Wins "digital review" award

Dear digital today Editor,

I noticed in your January 28, 1991 edition that you mention Digital products
and services that won digital review's Target Awards for 1991 in a story
headlined "Digital Products and Services receive digital review awards."

One important win you did not mention in the story is that of VAX Rdb/VMS.
Rdb shared the award for best relational database with Ingres.

This win is important because more and more customers are using relational
database products to store their corporate data.  Data, for most
enterprises, is their "life blood."  Speed, efficiency, integrity and
security are the most often mentioned reasons by customers, when asked why
they choose Rdb.

Rdb is a key way for customers to integrate their enterprise even if it
contains data in many forms on many systems.

VAX Rdb/VMS is the database of choice on VAX!


Regards,

Bruce Langston
Sales Support (Information Management Systems and Tools)
Los Angeles
833.51992 Target Award WinnersMRKTNG::SILVERBERGMark Silverberg DTN 264-2269 TTB1-5/B3Wed Dec 18 1991 14:1311
    The 1992 Target Awards are announced in the 12/16/91 issue of Digital
    Review.  Oracle Corp. won in the following catagories:
    
    Best Database Management System   (6.2)
    
    Best Database Tools  (SQL*Forms)
    
    Best CASE Software (CASE*Dictionary (tie with DEFT 4.1 from Sybase))
    
    Mark
    
833.6BIGUN::ANDERSONThe Unbearable Lightness of BeingFri Dec 20 1991 00:342
    re .5 Ooooh NO! ORACLE advertising is going to flood the marketplace
    down here. How did we let this happen?
833.7readers votedMRKTNG::SILVERBERGMark Silverberg DTN 264-2269 TTB1-5/B3Fri Dec 20 1991 12:558
    re.6   84,000 readers submitted their votes.  Digital does its best to
    get as many DEC employees as possible to vote for certain products, but
    I guess the majority of voters liked the Oracle products.  We didn't
    "let this happen", the readers (primarily VAX/VMS) made it happen with
    their votes.
    
    Mark
    
833.8KBEAR::STENOISHFri Dec 20 1991 16:027
    re .7
    
    If Digital employees are capable of "stuffing the ballot box", then so
    are Oracle employees.  In fact, I would assume that Oracle has more
    employees interested in stuffing the box for this award than Digital. 
    It may even be the case that Digital has more employees interested in
    stuffing the box for Oracle than for Digital.
833.9levityJENEVR::RLEESat Dec 21 1991 17:021
    now, now, children ... play nice, or don't play at all ... ;-)