Re: oracle benchmarks on VMS

From: Andrew Harrison SUNUK Consultancy <Andrew_No.Harrison_No_at_nospamn.sun.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 11:37:25 +0000
Message-ID: <3E648FF5.3010909@nospamn.sun.com>

John Smith wrote:
> "Hein van den Heuvel" <hein_netscape_at_eps.zko.dec.com> wrote in message
> news:3E63C5E9.88569D3F_at_eps.zko.dec.com...
>

>>
>>Tim Smith wrote:
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>>>I see Oracle publishes some benchmarks at
>>>http://www.oracle.com/apps_benchmark/, but notably there is
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> nothing
>

>>>for VMS - is that because Oracle writes to the filesystem, not
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> direct
>

>>>to device file files directly i.e. VMS filesystem is a lot slower
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> 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
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>>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.
>

Well in this case its just as well that HP does self limit the market by not advertising because the point that Hein is making is incorrect and has been for 6-7 years on most UNIX platforms.

regards
Andrew Harrison Received on Tue Mar 04 2003 - 05:37:25 CST