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Re: No future for DB2

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 22:48:07 -0700
Message-ID: <1122702459.361664@yasure>


rkusenet wrote:
> "DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote in message
> news:1122685628.347635_at_yasure...
>

>>Larry wrote:
>>
>>>Until Oracle is in the lead ... then it means something?
>>>
>>>Larry
>>
>>No ... those benchmarks are irrelevant period. It doesn't matter
>>whether they show lightspeed or glacial. They are irrelevant as
>>are the bribe-induced garbage that spews from Gartner and other
>>shills.

>
>
> You are saying this ?????????
>
> more than a year back I posted this:-
>
> " After all I know of many Informix installation
> which switched over to Oracle just because they know Oracle won't
> go away, even if it means shelling huge amount of money
> to get a performance not comparable with their earlier Informix one. "
>
> This was your response:-
>
> " If Informix performance is better than that of Oracle ... perhaps you
> would be so kind as to show me and others where that is demonstrated:
> http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/result s/tpcc_perf_results.asp?result type=all
> "
>
> This is the thread:
> http://tinyurl.com/ct6or
>
> I hate to say this, for an academician, your integrity is no better than
> Oracle
> sales rep. You keep changing your views based on convenience.

I was challenging you to put up evidence of a statement I considered baseless. The link was for purposes of encouragement. I have never altered my statements about TPC or Gartner or any of the this industry's other bottom feeders.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
http://www.psoug.org
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace x with u to respond)
Received on Sat Jul 30 2005 - 00:48:07 CDT

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