Re: ** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - RECORD-BREAKING TPC-C RECORD!! **

an350133@anon.penet.fi (Wow! That's fastttttttt) wrote: > REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ via First! -- Today, Oracle >Corp. announced a record-breaking TPC-C open systems benchmark, 9414 tpmC, >surpassing the existing performance record, also held by the Oracle7 database. This sounds like an advertisement if I ever read one. Who signs your checks? > > Oracle's result of 9414 tpmC at $316 per tpmC on an 8-processor Digital >AlphaServer 8400 compares with the Sybase System 11 result of 4544 tpmC at >$396 per tpmC recorded on a 16-processor SUN SPARCcenter 2000E and the >Informix result of 3524 tpmC at $495 per tpmC, recorded on a 20-processor >Sun SPARCcenter 2000E. In addition, Oracle's price/performance of $316 per >tpmC is superior to that offered on any high-performance system, e.g. >systems delivering more than 2,500 tpmC. I always thought that to make a "true" comparison of a software product, you would run the tests on the _same_ hardware. When a both Informix and Sybase are ported to the AlphaServer 8400, let the numbers fall where they may. This comparison is a bit too much, but I will admit the initial shok value can be parlayed into a good marketing push. -- // // stephen f. cawley // stephenc@federal.unisys.com // #include <disclaimer.h> #include <asbestos_shorts.h>