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

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. No doubt these excellent TPC-C numbers are due to a 7 GB database buffer cache. -- Lisa Roderick Applications Systems Engineering Performance Group Digital Equipment Corporation Nashua, NH lisa.roderick@zko.mts.dec.com