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

Hi Lisa, I don't think anyone is saying that the hardware comparisons are misleading, indeed a 300Mhz should be more powerful than a 85Mhz chip. What is misleading is the claim that a DBMS software is more efficient than another, while running on diffent hardware platforms. If we go by what you say (300-333Mhz chip vs. 85Mhz) it stands to reason that "ANY" software, regardless of whether it is a DBMS or something else should run much faster on a 300+Mhz chip than on a 85Mhz chip. I can see your point of view from a hardware comparison, but from a software comparison...nope. In <47dgu1$fo7@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> roderick@eps.enet.dec.com (Lisa Roderick) writes: > >In article <476ki6$5h6@news.informix.com>, dwatson@informix.com says... >> >>Oracle are comparing an 8-CPU DEC Alpha result with Sybase and >>Informix results from 16-CPU and 20-CPU Sun SPARC configurations. >>The comparisions made in the Oracle press release between RDBMS >>products are totally misleading. > >I don't see how these numbers are midleading. From a hardware product >availability point of view, the TPC-C numbers demonstrate the best that each >vendor has to offer. > >By the way, we recently announced 333 MHz CPUs for this platform. >SYou get better scalability over eight 300-333 MHz CPUs rather than >12 to 20 85 MHz CPUs. Best of all, cost per transaction is the least expensive. >-- >Lisa Roderick >Digital Equipment Corporation >lisa.roderick@zko.mts.dec.com >