Re: Microsoft destroys TPC-C records!

In comp.databases.sybase jahorsch_at_my-deja.com wrote:

> They both suck. If you give M$ enough money they give you a personal
> guy to call and put some fire under the support engineers. I assume
> for big companies Oracle might have the equiv. M$ is going to stop
> supporting 6.5 sometime this summer. Oracle is still supporting 6.
> That is where Oracle is MUCH better and is more enterprise friendly.
> The support may suck but at least its still there.

Oracle is the most difficult to admin in the world.

> Oracle is more
> difficult to admin but it is not difficult to do if you know how to do
> it. Every product has their plus and minuses thats why there is more
> than one product out there. I am at a company that may have one of the
> largest NT installations out there. NT if implemeted properly can give
> you the reliability desired. There is a box out of the hundreds that
> has the mystical blue screen every now and then but that is on a 200GB
> file server. Sun has the sames issues with netscape when stressed.
> Nothing is perfect. The issue is probably coming from the EMC disk.
> At some point you rely on third party stuff running in ring0 and puff
> your down.

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> Before you buy.

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http://www.cooper.com.hk Received on Wed Mar 29 2000 - 19:24:53 CST