Re: FW: FREE ORACLE SOFTWARE!

w1willi@ucs.att.com (w1willi@ucs.att.com) wrote: >Mark Denham writes: >>Hey, I object to this!! These guys would *NEVER* make that sort of >>comparison. Informix on DOS would be just *TOO* fast to compare >>against Oracle on a mainframe. They would more likely choose a >>scenario involving 1000 Leprechauns (in a box) passing paper messages >>between each other, and Oracle on a mainframe! >> >>Be a close run thing though. >Sorry, Mark, they *did* do that, and they did it in spades, splattered >across the advertising pages of PC Week and every other computer mag with >a decent readership. They compared OnLine/DOS (Novell) against Oracle/Unix. >Informix objected, of course, and was utterly ignored (no surprise here). >You'd think they'd realize there is more than enough room for multiple >RDBMS vendors in this market and quit taking cheap shots at their competitors. >Frankly, their marketing attitude alone is sufficient to keep me away. Actually that was 2 years ago on Novell for Informix. Actually that was Informix's choice (they could have not participated or chosen any other INTEL platform, DB2/2 chose not to participate this year). Again this year, they decided to participate again (and lost again) although on a different platform and Informix version#. This is *not* any RDBMS marketing here, this is PC Magazine doing an independent evaluation of RDBMS's. PC Magazine asked for vendor support (Informix sent software, no support; everyone else sent software and support, hmmmm). Where is the cheap shot here. PC Mag. designed it (using a modified AS3AP standard benchmark), ran it, reported it... Had nothing to do with any one database vendor. If Informix had any complaints they could have just withheld the results by never doing to test at all, the manner of testing and platforms was known well in advance. They took a chance and lost. Thomas Kyte tkyte@us.oracle.com >Bill Williams >E-Mail: bwilliam@jaxnet.com >Flames: nobody@nowhere.com -or- redirect to /dev/null >+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ >| Disclaimer: My views, opinions, and judgments are my own. | >+-----------------------------------------------------------------+ >| "Free scientific inquiry" is a redundancy. | >| "Free governmental inquiry" is self-contradictory. | >| | >| Be sure to read "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand. It's the world's | >| greatest novel, rated #2 of those books readers said had the | >| most impact on their lives (NY Times readership poll)! | >+-----------------------------------------------------------------+