Re: Oracle TPC-A Benchmarks

In article <245f53$4t5_at_infochi.com>, rfinkel_at_infochi.com (Richard Finkelstein) writes:
>
> I just read an Oracle ad in Computerworld which read in part "
> Specifically, the Oracle7tm cooperative server database has been certified
> as supporting over 10,000 users running more than 1,000 tpcA transactions
> per second on a pair of low cost UNIC computers."
>
> I would be interested in comments from Oracle and non-Oracle users on this
> ad.

No flames but it is my belief that it is a Sequent. I would to see the total cost of the whole system (hardware and software) over a period of 3 years. This is so that can have a good laugh on the definition of a 'low cost UNIX computer'.

see ya
tony

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