Re: Microsoft destroys TPC-C records!

Jason Webster wrote:

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> 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.
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Actually, we should be bashing the consumers who blindly buy things based on nothing but marketing info and hype. Can anyone actually tell me what Windows 2000 does that I didn't have on my desk 15 years ago with a Sun 2 (68020 based) and SunOS or AFS? Not much. Over 15 years hardware has advanced by light years yet software has just gotten bigger and buggier. Who do you think has been driving that trend? The biggest advance in software (in the consumer market) has been in games. Look at a flight simulator from 15 years ago compared to a new one, big difference. Funny, I never liked Microsoft's flight simulator either, I prefer to actually shoot things.

Jay Davis Received on Mon Mar 13 2000 - 13:59:17 CST