Re: Oracle threatens to sue Standish over an article

>>>>> Regarding Re: Oracle threatens to sue Standish over an article; berenson_at_nova.enet.dec.com (Hal Berenson) adds:

Thanks for a pretty reasonable exposition of this debate, but I have one question:

	Hal> 2) The real point, the one Standish made but more or less seems
	Hal> to be getting lost in the noise between them and Oracle ...

	Hal> (a) no longer demonstrates user-useful differences between
	Hal> products and/or (b) no longer can be extrapolated to predict
	Hal> the performance of customer applications.  TPC-A and TPC-B have
	Hal> more or less reached this point.  This doesn't make them bad
	Hal> benchmarks...

Why doesn't this make them "bad" benchmarks? This almost seems like the definition of a bad benchmark. (Perhaps they were not bad at one time, but that isn't a reason they can't be bad now).

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