I don't believe MS will ever give up. Isn't that part of American
Capitalism? Your competitor does you one better on some test, therefore you've
got to better them. Give Oracle a couple of weeks and we'll here that one too.
But seriously, how many of us really care about the TP-C benchmark? It's
great for marketing and the sales droids but how do I relate that to the
business needs of where I'm working? Great, we can push the database to 400K+
transactions per second, wow. Now if I could just get those 300 testers on the
floor to take advantage of that when their tests are 5 minutes long!! Somehow
the capabilities of the server/database combination has gotten SOO big that it
can't be filled anymore or so the users think when they release the query from
hell.
BTW: As I look down the road to the future, I wonder how much of the
commercial software industry is going to survive the wave of open source stuff
coming down the pipe? Here I am, today, sitting at a MS Win2K desktop with
Oracle running on the database server. A couple of years down the road I can
see a Linux, or some derivative of it, as the desktop and PostgreSql on the
database server. Processing data will still have to happen and relational data
will still be around, but will MS and Oracle?? Damn good question I'd have to
say.
/* rant mode off, cool mode on */
Dick Goulet
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Author: DENNIS WILLIAMS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 2/27/2003 11:26 AM
For your amusement, MS thinks they can "now" equal Oracle in performance
(wasn't that what they claimed 3 years ago?).
Anyway, I tend to think of these benchmarks like the NASCAR winners. Yeah
I'm going to go by a Chrysler because it won the NASCAR championship.
http://www.entmag.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=5707
<http://www.entmag.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=5707>
Dennis Williams
DBA, 40%OCP, 100% DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
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