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Re: Microsoft destroys TPC-C records!

From: DNP <High.Flight_at_btinternet.com>
Date: 2000/03/19
Message-ID: <38D55BAF.1B61@btinternet.com>#1/1

I think, to sum it up, Microsoft simply has no scruples, no morals, and no shame when it comes to marketing. They will go down in history for causing more computer-related angst among the world population than any other organisation. Whether this can be totally mitigated by the fact that they developed a mass-market for computers with GUIs remains to be seen.

David P.

(p.s. I was lucky - I got burnt by COM in a development project - it never was going to be mission critial).


Michael D. Long wrote:
>
> I bought DCOM / MTS hook, line and sinker. Then I found that
> even Microsoft has to eliminate the D and simply use COM in
> order to get MTS to scale with IIS (and running as an in-process
> Library Package, no less).
>
> And to top it off, I recently learned that the July 11th, 1999 Web
> Application Server Shootout article in PC Week used a VC++
> implementation relying on an ISAPI extension instead of MTS
> as the article insinuated. This DLL preallocated connections,
> memory buffers, etc. up front, and used the ODBC API with
> implicit commits - where are the transactions?
>
> Based on my knowledge of the VB / MTS environment, I can
> unequivocally state that it is not possible for the VB test to
> perform at 2/3 the throughput of the VC++ / ODBC API test
> if the VB / MTS case were using transactions.
>
> I have yet to see a case where MTS / COM+ transactions
> are measured head-to-head with a competitive product.
>
> I'm not trying to bash Microsoft, as I make my living using
> its tools to develop applications. My irritation with the BS
> being published stems from implementing a large project
> for a Fortune 100 based on smoke-and-mirrors technology.
>
> Microsoft needs to publish less marketing hype and more
> accurate technical content on its technologies. Also,
> releasing some of the issues known by the Microsoft
> staff as MSKB articles could keep clients from wasting
> money on fruitless technologies.
>
> Mike
>
> DNP wrote in message <38CD9303.22C5_at_btinternet.com>...
> >If Com+ helps you keep the right data in memory at the right time then
> >yes. There is no other significant issue.
> >
> >David P.
> >
> >
> >----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >Norris wrote:
> >>
> >> Do you mean the fast performance of Windows 2000/SQLServer 8.0 is not
 related to the speed of COM+ ?
> >>
> >>
Received on Sun Mar 19 2000 - 00:00:00 CST

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