Re: IDS as the greenest database on the market.

Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > On Oct 8, 1:25 am, DA Morgan <damor...@psoug.org> wrote: >> Obnoxio The Clown wrote: >>> DA Morgan wrote: >>>> Ian Michael Gumby wrote: >>>>> Informix is the fastest OLTP engine out there. Why IBM won't release a >>>>> TPC-C or TPC-E benchmark is beyond me. >>>> These two sentences, juxtaposed the way you did, ... priceless. >>>> You've earned a place, on a PowerPoint slide, in my 2009 curriculum. > Juxtaposed maybe. Still grammatically correct. > Perhaps you are confused by the two statements. > > Statement one is a fact. Fact based on what. Post the work that makes it a "fact." Hardware platform. Operating system. Version information. Who ran it, what dates, and where. Against what other RDBMS products? Again with full platform, operating system, etc. information. Running OLTP or ODS or DW workload? Who wrote the spec? Who wrote the code? Where were the results published? I think you mean "fact" as opposed to "FACT." Try politics not computing. -- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)