Re: Microsoft destroys TPC-C records!

Casper.Dik_at_Holland.Sun.Com (Casper H.S. Dik - Network Security Engineer) writes:

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>"Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl_at_mediaone.com> writes:

>>This is meaningless for the database vendors until with get TPC's from them
>>on similar hardware.

>>On the other hand, this doesn't look real good for Sun. Sun doesn't have a
>>hardware offering that is competitive with the Compaq box.

>Read the executive summary; it looks like a 12x8 processor (12 node)
>solution using clustering.

>12 boxes, not one. The clients evenly distributed over the nodes.

>TPC_C is relatively easy to sub divide; so this is basically a
>"we can do 220000/12 or around 20,000 tpc-c on one 8CPU box"

>Comparable to the first > 100,000 result by Digital; not a serious
>indication for "big iron" performance.

        And of course, that means the customer has purchased *twelve* licenses for Win 2000 Advanced Server, not to mention the associated *client* licenses, and will have to maintain twelve servers. Received on Fri Feb 18 2000 - 22:38:57 CST