Re: Informix beats Oracle

Data Cruncher wrote: > http://www.informixcity.com/news6.aspx > > I am bit anxious to know the legality of this > result. Doesn't oracle have a EUA about publishing > benchmark results without their written approval. The famous Dewitt-clause, indeed. There are all sorts of interesting restrictions in Oracle licenses. No doubt they will eventually be tested. And doing so can backfire: http://antivirus.about.com/library/weekly/aa012003b.htm Here is one that should give pause http://www.oracle.com/html/terms.html "the Documents may be used solely for personal, informational, non-commercial purposes" Every Oracle DBA logging onto the website stands with one food in jail... Cheers Serge -- Serge Rielau DB2 Solutions Development IBM Toronto Lab

Serge Rielau wrote: > Here is one that should give pause > http://www.oracle.com/html/terms.html > "the Documents may be used solely for personal, informational, > non-commercial purposes" > > Every Oracle DBA logging onto the website stands with one food in jail... > > Cheers > Serge Given that you didn't spend any time at law school your read of that verbiage is understandable. It means you can not resell the contents. But if you truly believe this is a horror then this should send you straight to your own corporate management: http://ibm.ascential.com/company/legal.html "You may not download or copy any Information on this Web site unless: * you use the Information solely for personal, informational and non-commercial purposes" Oh my gawd ... it looks like plagiarism. -- Daniel A. Morgan