Re: Oracle TPC-A Benchmarks
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1993 11:43:54 GMT
Message-ID: <1993Aug10.114354.1753_at_pyra.co.uk>
In <1993Aug10.020954.23953_at_cmutual.com.au> aaj_at_cmutual.com.au (Tony Jambu) writes:
>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'.
I guess your perspective on "low cost" just depends on what you're used to paying!
graeme
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