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

Howard Perry <dechp@hk.mobitel.telia.se writes: > >It just goes to show that benchmarks cannot be relied upon to compare >performance of 2 products unless the comparison is made in the same >circumstances. and when was the last time we've seen any two s/w vendors, let alone dbms vendors, publish benchmarks of their s/w on identical hardware (brand, amount of dasd and ram, number and type of cpus, etc)? at my company, where i'm the distributed db product support analyst/manager, we've reached the point of running our own benchmarks (derived from our business) on what ever dbms we might be interested in - ON THE SAME BOX! makes it much easier to explain the differences to my customers, the application managers and programers. _________________________________________ pat---- | Patrick R. Sklenar - Coventry, CT 06238 | ____________________________| e-mail: psklenar@nai.net (primary) | | OS/2 | DOS v7 | Linux | NT | psklenar@delphi.com (alternate) | ----------------------------------------------------------------------