Re: Microsoft meets the Oracle challenge?
Date: 1999/03/19
Message-ID: <KETIL-864snhipd3.fsf_at_ketilboks.bgo.nera.no>#1/1
ndm_at_shore.net (Norman D. Megill) writes:
> If you read the MS press release carefully, it appears that all they did
The press release amazed me. One involuntarily gets the impression
that MS and HP PC's are equivalent to the Sun(?) and Oracle setup, at
a fraction of the cost. And they manage to give that impression in
spite of the apparent facts, that MS and HP used what, three months?
just to get the 1TB database running at all, and that they clearly
didn't win the bet, which expired February.
> was simply to build a 1-Terabyte db.
Quite impressive - the press release, that is.
> So, it appears they falsely claimed to have met Oracle's published
> challenge, which includes a performance benchmark.
I understood it to mean they were going to run TPC-D on it, and publish results on Wednesday? We'll have to wait and see.
> I mean, what they said was a lie, right?
It's an exceptional piece of work, any politician would have been proud.
-kzm
-- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giantsReceived on Fri Mar 19 1999 - 00:00:00 CET