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. > > >Oracle7's new record is more than two times faster than Sybase's best ever >performance and nearly three times faster than Informix's best result. > >Remarkably, Oracle delivered twice the performance of Sybase's upcoming System >11, but Oracle used only half the number of processors used by Sybase. > > Informix used even more processors than Sybase to obtain still lower >performance. This Oracle7 benchmark not only set the performance record, it >also set the all-time price/performance record for high-performance systems at >$316 per tpmC. Well-Looka here, an Olav Wannabee (At least Olav has the integrity to put his name to an article)...Why are you anonymouse(sic)!?!? Could you please explain how oracle delivered twice the performance of Sybase-Since sybase hasnt released any numbers with Sys11 and Digital?? Or is this another attempt at an *estimate*. Geez Signed: Tony Basoglu tbas@sybase.com - Yes I work for sybase, these are my opinions!