Xref: alice comp.databases.oracle.server:83064 Path: alice!news-feed.fnsi.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-was.dfn.de!znr.news.ans.net!news.chips.ibm.com!newsfeed.btv.ibm.com!news!not-for-mail From: Kent Milligan Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Comparing ORACLE and MS SQL Server Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 09:31:13 -0600 Organization: IBM Rochester Lines: 12 Message-ID: <38984DC1.43B281F0@us.ibm.com> References: <07E164D341EED111ADCD0000F8662F4A086CA794@pioushqntmail2.pios.com> <3897CB00.97D50809@erols.com> Reply-To: kmill@us.removethis.ibm.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.rchland.ibm.com 949505473 12424 9.5.99.99 (2 Feb 2000 15:31:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.rchland.ibm.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Feb 2000 15:31:13 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en I don't know if you can even say level playing field. Essentially it comes down to who wants to spend the most money on their benchmark testing. Do you want the database vendor to invest R&D money in simulated benchmarks or database features that can benefit your applications? -- Kent Milligan, DB2 & BI team PartnerWorld for Developers, AS/400 kmill@us.removethis.ibm.com GO HAWKEYES!! (opinions stated are not necessarily those of my employer)