I have to wade in with my good friend Robert here - this forum is the ideal place for testimonials on software, from both users and manufacturers. The more a product is touted to the group, the more chance there is of real scrutiny of the product (seeing behind the smoke and mirrors), and sharing experiences from those who are actually using a product in the field. Isn't this exchange of information what this forum is about?
Dave Irvine
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-----Original Message-----
From: Richer, Robert [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 2:47 PM
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Subject: RE: Mercator
Bonjour! (Hi! in French)
Sorry I disagree. Testimonials can be very helpful when coming from users
of a product.
Of course sale speech from software manufacturers should not be allowed
except if they inform us of the existence of a product.
Thanks,
Robert Richer
Coordonnateur Commerce �lectronique
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IPEX Inc.
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On Thursday, June 01, 2000 2:20 PM, Rita Parrott [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
wrote:
> Greetings to everyone:
>
> This is the first time that I have ever responded to this list. The
> reason I am choosing to do so now is to state that we should not fill up
the
> emails with testimonials about certain products. Does anyone know if the
> Gartner group or another objective organization has evaluated and
published
> results?
>
> Thanks and regards,
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anthony Beecher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 7:48 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: Mercator
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>
> Not at all -
>
> Mercator is the fastest tool, hands down.
>
> If you don't use it correctly, you can create unoptimized situations. The
> strength of the tool is that it is so flexable, you can choose the most
> optimized method of acheiving your objective.
>
> What Mercator is doing is creating an extract file. Then it rips through
> this extract file to transform it to your output. Most likely you should
> pay attention to optimizing the query that creates the extracted data.
Also
> if you are using ODBC, you might see a performance increase by using
> Mercator's native db driver for your database instead of ODBC.
>
> Anthony Beecher
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eugene Teo [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>
> Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 12:45 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Mercator
>
>
>
>
> I notice some of you have used Mercator before. My office uses Mercator
for
> our
> customers but found that it runs too slowly. This is particularly true
when
> the
> database is huge.
>
> One reason for this, IMHO, is because Mercator loads the whole
database
> into
> their own temporary files before starting the mapping process. This is
> one of
> the few reasons I found.
>
> Anybody shares this same sentiment?
>
> -Eugene
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