[email protected] (AbsKerneels) writes: > Note: On the back of the last weeks Economist ? Oracle claims they can > give you TWICE the performance at 33% of the cost of an IBM true BLUE > solution.
note that tpc benchmarks include total cost numbers per operation ... if the mainframe cost claims are other than marketing hype ... find a mainframe tpc benchmark (btw, there are large number of ibm tpc benchmarks ... so it isn't a corporation issue). http://www.tpc.org/ top ten tpc-c by price/performance http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_price_perf_results.asp top ten tpc-c by performance http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_perf_results.asp tpc-c transactions include acid properaties ... aka both tpc and acid largely attributed to Jim Gray after he left ibm research http://www.tpc.org/information/who/gray.asp I've mentioned before when Jim was leaving SJR ... he pawned off a bunch of stuff on me ... consulting with the IMS DBMS group, interface to early relational customers, etc. -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
