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Re: oracle benchmarks on VMS

From: John Smith <a_at_nonymous.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 02:21:47 GMT
Message-ID: <%4U8a.41657$em1.14204@news04.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com>

"Hein van den Heuvel" <hein_netscape_at_eps.zko.dec.com> wrote in message news:3E63C5E9.88569D3F_at_eps.zko.dec.com...
>
>
> Tim Smith wrote:
>
> > I see Oracle publishes some benchmarks at
> > http://www.oracle.com/apps_benchmark/, but notably there is
nothing
> > for VMS - is that because Oracle writes to the filesystem, not
direct
> > to device file files directly i.e. VMS filesystem is a lot slower
than
> > raw devices?
>
> It has nothing to do with (potential) speed.
> It is just a commercial / marketing decision mostly from Oracle.
> They decided there was not enough critical mass to maintain support
for
> the Oracle Applicaiton suite on VMS.

Sorry Hein, nothing against you.....
Once again HP self-limits the market for VMS by not advertising, and by doing so, makes it easy for sales to go to Sun/IBM/Dell.

> It would be nice to see some VMS / Oracle benchmark, but I will not
hold
> my breath.
> Benchmarks require major investment which both companies believe is
better
> spend on the products itself. VMS will offer comparable (ballpark)
> performance as Unix on the same platform.

They'll never benchmark (ie. spend the money) on what they consider to be a 'fringe' platform.

Just thinking about HP's lack of advertising and marketing of VMS makes me think of the event horizon of a black hole - VMS keeps spinning around just microns above the event horizon, with a minor perturbation in the gravitational flux ready to send it slipping below the event horizon for good. Received on Mon Mar 03 2003 - 20:21:47 CST

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