Re: Microsoft destroys TPC-C records!

Yes, I agreed. Every RDBMS software has its strong and weak points.

In fact, the Sybase DataServer, from which the original Microsoft SQL Server was developed, was the first commercial relational database system to be initially developed as a client/server system.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/isapi/msdnlib.idc?theURL=/library/backgrnd/html/sqlquerproc.htm

In comp.databases.sybase Jason Webster <jason.webster_at_mail.state.ky.us> wrote:

> Because of this, I think we should be bashing Sybase for their crappy
> marketing instead of Microsoft for their crappy software. Whoever has
> been in charge of selling stuff at Sybase for the last decade should
> be whipped. I mean here's a company that makes lean, open software
> that works great and allows an expert dba to do some pretty amazing
> things with very little (reletivly speaking) in the way of resources.
> If Sybase or IBM had done their job selling their products, we would
> not have to sit here and be nauseated by claims that Microsoft is
> better because any knucklehead can use it.

> humph!
> --
> Jason Webster

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