Re: MILLION DOLLAR CHALLENGE FROM ORACLE

Oracle 9i Enterprise Edition should be ready this year. However, it is not available at Oracle Store Buy Online.

I don't think Oracle will let us know if the web site can only run 2.9 times faster than before the change to Oracle technology.

Mon, 09 Apr 2001 09:20:42 -0400 Blair Kenneth Adamache <adamache_at_ca.ibm.com> wrote:
> When is 9i available?
>
> Regarding the challenge: we won't know if Oracle lost any of these because they
> enforce confidentiality in the agreement:
>
> "By registering for this offer or participating, you: (a) agree
> that your dealings with us in connection with this offer, including the
> results of any testing conducted to measure website performance, are
> confidential and you may not disclose details or information
> regarding these dealings to any third party without our prior
> written permission..."
>
> 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

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