Re: Microsoft destroys TPC-C records!

On Tue, 21 Mar 2000 17:57:00 GMT, jahorsch_at_my-deja.com wrote:

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>An idiot can install and sort of run 2000 where I cant really say the
>same for SunOS.

That seems to be the major problem with MS products: LOTS of idiots installing them...

> Sure Oracle is more tunable and may have more
>functionality but do you need that.

Yes. Most definitely. Of course, not for storing user's spreadsheet data... A little bit more than that. About a few Tb more than that, matter of fact.

>hardware has gone. So many people think of SQL Server and think of
>6.5. Not that 6.5 is the worst engine in the world but the difference
>is night and day between 6.5 and 2000.

Funny, I remember EXACTLY the same being said about sql server V3 and V4, V4 and V5, V5 and V6, etc,etc, ad nauseum.

> You could say the same with
>Oracle 7.3 and 8i.

Exactly.

>Sybase doent even post TPCC benchmarks anymore nor
>will Oracle at this rate beacause they cannot compete with MS at the
>price performance level.

And so what makes you think that is a static siituation?

> I think that IBM is the only one with a
>chance left because of pricing. Sybase will be gone soon as well as
>Informix.
>

Dunno about Sybase. But as for Informix, you are kidding right? I think your rush in dismissing the entire database market just because MS decided to give away sql server is a bit misguided, to say the least. How are you gonna run sql server on ANY platform that is not an MS operating system? What, they don't exist? What, they're gonna disappear too? Get real.

Cheers
Nuno Souto
nsouto_at_nsw.bigpond.net.au.nospam
http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/the_Den/index.html Received on Wed Mar 22 2000 - 07:29:27 CST