Re: Microsoft destroys TPC-C records!

On Tue, 28 Mar 2000 16:39:21 GMT, jahorsch_at_my-deja.com wrote:

> Anyway enough
>said you guys can think what you want but really you are only doing
>some MS bashing.

When they show they can release a product that runs exceedingly well across platforms, in ALL of them, they will have a good product. So far it only runs on one and it takes a small army and heaps of vaporware to make it perform in a fake environment.

It would help if the database could interface well with a little bit more than only Ms products.

Apple, IBM and many others tried that "bottled" stuff long ago. Didn't work. What makes you think it will work for Ms? Their high number of licenses, 95% of which is desktops running screen savers or home computers running Quake?

Corporate stuff is very different. It will be a really, really mad IT manager that will tie him/herself to a proprietary platform with a use-by date of 1.5 years... That sort of stuff is long gone from the corporate world, Ms just hasn't realised it yet. Let them waste their R&D and marketing $$$, they got plenty to spend.

BTW, have you ever had a BIG table clustered on an "int" column that suddenly runs out of steam? As in overflow of max int? Big job to fix, eh?
In ORACLE it's a 2 second solution. But of course, ORACLE is the one of the "difficult" administration...

That is just a VERY small example of the difference between "industrial strength" products and "marketing strength" ones.

Cheers
Nuno Souto
nsouto_at_nsw.bigpond.net.au.nospam
http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/the_Den/index.html Received on Wed Mar 29 2000 - 00:00:00 CST