I agree. Most vendors don't pay much attention to the existence of
MUMPS in their marketing literature. But that's a different issue: my
point was that it's necessary to go beyond anecdotal evidence if you
want to make rigorous claims about which type of system is faster.
From a practical point of view, anecdotal evidence (It worked for
me), may be just fine, but it doesn't really answer the kinds of
questions a scientific analysis would need to address.
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Gregory Woodhouse
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"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement
of everyday thinking." -- Albert Einstein
On Jun 11, 2005, at 8:43 PM, Chris Richardson wrote:
Greg;
I am pointing out that the vendors do not publish such figures
because
the outcomes are attocious for comparisions with other technologies
they
hope to supress. The paper was published over 5 years ago and I am
a bit
hazy on the specific figures, but those figures and the testing
constraints
were published. These results are correct in the magnetudes, but I
am a bit
hazy on the details. But if someone else might have that article,
we might
put it up on hardhats for review.
Also remember that the MUG Quarterly was a user group
publication and not
the IEEE. I think that it is a sad state when the vendors can't put
together a reasonable set of benchmarks to let the truth be known.
Also
remember that Kaiser in Northern California just stopped a ten year
project
to install Oracle in favor of another MUMPS solution. Southern
California
Kaiser never changed off of MUMPS technology. Hard to beat the
ecconomies
of scale.
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