Path: news.easynews.com!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!sjc72.webusenet.com!sjc70.webusenet.com!news.webusenet.com!news03.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com!news04.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "John Smith" Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.databases.oracle.server References: <3E63C5E9.88569D3F@eps.zko.dec.com> Subject: Re: oracle benchmarks on VMS Lines: 45 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.3018.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 Message-ID: <%4U8a.41657$em1.14204@news04.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com> Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 02:21:47 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.49.106.178 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rogers.com X-Trace: news04.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com 1046744507 65.49.106.178 (Mon, 03 Mar 2003 21:21:47 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 21:21:47 EST Xref: newsfeed1.easynews.com comp.os.vms:351919 comp.databases.oracle.server:178339 X-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 19:21:41 MST (news.easynews.com) "Hein van den Heuvel" wrote in message news:3E63C5E9.88569D3F@eps.zko.dec.com... > > > Tim Smith wrote: > > > I see Oracle publishes some benchmarks at > > http://www.oracle.com/apps_benchmark/, but notably there is nothing > > for VMS - is that because Oracle writes to the filesystem, not direct > > to device file files directly i.e. VMS filesystem is a lot slower than > > raw devices? > > It has nothing to do with (potential) speed. > It is just a commercial / marketing decision mostly from Oracle. > They decided there was not enough critical mass to maintain support for > the Oracle Applicaiton suite on VMS. Sorry Hein, nothing against you..... Once again HP self-limits the market for VMS by not advertising, and by doing so, makes it easy for sales to go to Sun/IBM/Dell. > It would be nice to see some VMS / Oracle benchmark, but I will not hold > my breath. > Benchmarks require major investment which both companies believe is better > spend on the products itself. VMS will offer comparable (ballpark) > performance as Unix on the same platform. They'll never benchmark (ie. spend the money) on what they consider to be a 'fringe' platform. Just thinking about HP's lack of advertising and marketing of VMS makes me think of the event horizon of a black hole - VMS keeps spinning around just microns above the event horizon, with a minor perturbation in the gravitational flux ready to send it slipping below the event horizon for good.