Re: Sybase vs. Oracle

Pablo Sanchez wrote: > > My feel on this is that it *appears* that Oracle tends to not play > fair in the advertisement world. And I believe that was one of the > main points that Francisco was writing in the previous note. > > My take on it: > > I wouldn't trust Sybase/Oracle Marketing any more than I could > throw 'em. > > Pablo Sanchez Glad to hear it as Informix has the best TPC numbers on the SGI Challenge and those guys haven't taken the time to show the SGI box the respect it deserves. Informix tends to make alot of hay over TPC's, but only because it shows that the hardware vendors know that it'll make them look good. Most TPC's are on dissimilar configurations, so comparing them is difficult at best. The SAP SD benchmarks are done on the same hardware configs, but Sybase can't run SAP apps (still no row-level locking), so you can only compare Informix and Obstacle. I wonder why we haven't seen any ads about those...hmmm. Misleading or false advertising is a dis-service to our customers and a disgrace to the industry. I hope that our firm never stoops so low. PS: Don't believe any marketing, not even ours. ;) -- Mark Sigler Client Services Engineer Fort Lauderdale, Florida Informix Software, Inc. #include <stddisclaimer.h>