Re: New IBM Nonsense

Noons wrote:
> thu.nnguyen_at_gmail.com apparently said,on my timestamp of 22/01/2005
9:30 PM:
>
> >
> > Why wouldn't you believe what was just read? They are industry
> > standard benchmarks and the full disclosure of the result are
available
> > at www.tpc.org
>
> Do you believe in Santa as well?

What does that have to do with anything? I'm just saying the results from the originally linked webpage is accurate. They reported the highest result recorded for Oracle and MSSql/Windows against the highest result for DB2. If you want to check if they are indeed right, just go to www.tpc.org.

>
> >>Wow ... I guess IBM is saying a Power5 at 1.9GHz is equivalent to
an
> >>Itanium2 at 1.5GHz: I don't think so.
> >
> >
> > Yep Power5 hardware is much much faster than Itanium 2s. If IBM
were
>
> You really didn't read what Daniel wrote, did you?
> <sigh>
>
> > (but still below) to the 3.2million results from DB2, although I
doubt
> > they ever would.
>
> Me2.
>
>
> --
> Cheers
> Nuno Souto
> in sunny Sydney, Australia
> wizofoz2k_at_yahoo.com.au.nospam
Received on Sat Jan 22 2005 - 18:30:04 CST