Though Ellison had made this offer, he retracted it several months later.
Rumor was Ellison pulled the offer when he learned that a group had been put
together at Microsoft to win the prize and were told that if they won the
money they could keep it.
It was a publicity stunt and nothing more.
It is also a stupid argument. It is like arguing that the top speed of a
Porsche Carrera 4 Turbo is 176 and the Corvette is 165 so the Porsche must
be better. The fact that you can buy two Corvettes for one Porsche doesn't
enter into the equation as to which is best. Moreover if your task is to
haul 30 people one-way to school, than neither vehicle is right for the job,
you need a bus.
Cheers!
- Steve
PS. I think CA is a little bit bigger than Veritas.
-----Original Message-----
From: Donovan Rittenbach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 11:11 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Oracle Cold Fusion $1 million dollars
Its performance was so fast in fact, that Larry Ellison said that
he'd pay $1 million to anybody who could show a Microsoft database
performing anything less than 3X slower than an Oracle database.
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