Re: Microsoft destroys TPC-C records!

Yes, Microsoft's games are quite reliable 24x7

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In comp.databases.sybase Jay Davis <jld_at_ncom-tech.com> wrote:
> Jason Webster 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.
>>

> 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

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