Re: feature & performance comparison

From: Mark Townsend <markbtownsend_at_home.com>
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 01:40:54 GMT
Message-ID: <B746CCB6.D840%markbtownsend@home.com>

in article 992027897.1213837428_at_news.cis.dfn.de, Obnoxio The Clown at obnoxio_at_hotmail.com wrote on 6/8/01 12:16 PM:

> On Fri, 08 Jun 2001, Jim Kennedy wrote:

>> Flame war brewing.
>> I did notice on the Oracle site an article stating that IBM showed off their
>> new servers by using Oracle to get some great tpc-c benchmark numbers.  The
>> article goes on to wonder why they did not use DB2 (fair question).
>> 
>> Draw your own conclusions.

>
> Oh, come on! If IBM use DB2 for benchmarks, then other vendors say: "See,
> you're locked in to IBM". If they use some other vendor's software, then other
> vendors say: "See, DB2 doesn't perform well, that's why they use Sybase (or
> whatever)".
>
> It's one or the other, surely?
>

Both. And don't call me Shirley :-) Received on Fri Jun 08 2001 - 20:40:54 CDT