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Abstract
The improper use of commercial data base management systems (DBMSs) has been a major problem throughout the history of data base management. With the emergence of microcomputers, the selection of the appropriate DBMS for a user' s particular applications environment can be difficult. This column reviews and discusses approaches toward evaluating a DBMS and provides examples that illustrate the application of these approaches to microcomputer DBMSs. IS managers would benefit by following this column' s three-step evaluation framework
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Chao-Hsien Chu is an assistant professor of management at lowa State University. He has written artides in the areas of decision support systems and operations management, and his current research interests are in the use of microcomputers for decision support.business expert systems, and manufacturing information systems. Chu received a PhD in business from Pennsylvania State University
Hsin-Hui Lin is a PhD candidate in industrial engineering at lowa State University, He obtained an MS degree in industrial engineering from lowa State University and a BS degree in industrial engineering from Chung Yuan University in Taiwan. His areas o f interests are data base management systems, software reliability, software life cycle cost modeling, and reliability optimization