From: Rich Teer <rich@rite-group.com>
Subject: Re: Microsoft destroys TPC-C records!
Date: 2000/03/03
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On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Nuno Souto wrote:

> Of course, they had to rename it into "federated database" when
> everybody else calls it a distributed view.  Makes it sound like a new
> technology. And all the idiots out there will go "Wow!"...

Just like most (if not all) other M$ "innovations"...

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