Re: Microsoft destroys TPC-C records!

To see MS innovations and how SQL Server 2000 achieved world record TPC-C performance and price/performance results:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/isapi/msdnlib.idc?theURL=/library/backgrnd/html/megasrvs.htm

In comp.databases.sybase Nuno Souto <nsouto_at_nsw.bigpond.net.au.nospam> wrote:
> On 9 Mar 2000 02:00:23 GMT, Norris <jcheong_at_cooper.com.hk> wrote:
 

>>>> > Everything any culture on the planet has today is >>>> > ALL built on somebody else's work.  

> Don't have the slightest problem with this. That's what makes progress
> work.
 

> PROVIDED we are talking about "building on".
 

> Badge-engineering and term re-invention like MS does all the time
> is what I'm against. This is not the same as "building on somebody
> else's work". This is crap, desguised as marketing.
 

> Many years ago, it was the norm to use tar and feathers for what MS
> marketing does. Nowadays, the stock market hikes up the share price
> when MS re-names something instead of "building on something"...

> Cheers
> Nuno Souto
> nsouto_at_nsw.bigpond.net.au.nospam
> http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/the_Den/index.html

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