Re: MILLION DOLLAR CHALLENGE FROM ORACLE

The IBM rebuttal was the:
Cut to the chase, DB2 is the fastest DBMS (and it's cheaper than Oracle) ad.

I also would like to know if anyone actualy was accepted and what the outcome was. Also what did they do to tune their DB2 or MS database before letting Oracle tinker with their system... For the prize of that investment you can hire some real good consultants :-)

Cheers
Serge

Larry Menard wrote:

> It's my understanding that there was an IBM rebuttal the very next day.
>
> Nuno Souto wrote:
>
> > On 9 Apr 2001 05:16:52 GMT, stolze_at_us.ibm.com (Knut Stolze) wrote:
> >
> > >It is surely known inside IBM. It was pointed out (at least to me) that the
> > >one deciding whether a customer is allowed to participate or not is Oracle!!
> >
> > IMHO, whoever came up with this one at ORACLE should be summarily
> > fired. There are many advantages to the 9i distributed cache, and
> > there are as many other ways of promoting it than this sort of
> > MS-ism...
> >
> > Cheers
> > Nuno Souto
> > nsouto_at_bigpond.net.au.nospam
> > http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/the_Den/index.html
>
> --
> Larry Menard
> IBM Workstation Database (DB2) Performance Team
> Defender of Geese and of all things Natural
Received on Mon Apr 09 2001 - 08:03:48 CDT