Re: Larry Ellison comments on Microsoft's benchmark

Hi All,

The results of this benchmark appear to have been withdrawn. http://www.tpc.org/new_result/c-withdrawn-results.idc

Regards,
Steve Adams

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On Wed, 21 Jun 2000 15:49:26 GMT, "Ivana Humpalot" <ivana_humpalot_at_nospam.com> wrote:

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>In the Analyst Q&A following Oracle's 4th Quarter Earnings Report,
>Larry Ellison made some very interesting remarks about Microsoft's
>recent SQL Server 2000 benchmark.
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>If Ellison's comments are true then Microsoft is basically
>defrauding their customers with their benchmark.
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>I have included below the transcript of his comments.
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>Is Larry Ellison lying or is Microsoft really defrauding their
>customers with their benchmark?
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>You can listen to the audio here:
> http://www.nasdaq.com/reference/broadcast_oracle.htm
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>Near the 1 hour mark, an analyst from Paine Webber asked a question
>about Microsoft SQL Server 2000. The following is Larry Ellison's
>response:
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> In terms of microsoft.. we have no concerns at all. They still
> can't scale. They have this benchmark that they got out which
> works only in the laboratory.
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> The only problem with microsoft's benchmark is that it has a
> 3-hour mean time of failure. What they have done is to chop up
> the database in to 10 separate little databases, and if any one
> of those databases fail it brings down the entire system, or
> worse yet gives wrong results.
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> So it is a completely bogus benchmark.
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> I mean, it meets the letter of the benchmark rules, however by
> their own statistics in terms of availability they have a very
> very short mean time of failure.
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> No one seriously will ever use this kind of system.
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> They have 10 separate computers each with 10% of the database.
> If you want an 11th computer you have to unload the entire
> database from the 10 computers and then put 9.1% of the database
> on the 11 computers. If one of the computers fail you lose 10%
> of the database. And that means when you use your query.. you
> don't get the right answer back.
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> If you use 10 separate systems.. if you believe Microsoft's
> statistics on failure rates.. one failure every 30 days, you are
> going to get a major system outage or wrong results every 3 days.
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> It is a preposterous benchmark.
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Received on Sat Jul 01 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT