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

In article <landeckDHquro.7Dy@netcom.com>, landeck@netcom.com (Albert Landeck) wrote: > OK, first of all it is important to know that I am a Sybase employee, > so take everything I say with a grain of salt... :-) > > These are truly impressive numbers, but as it has been mentioned by > other posters these are like comparing apples to oranges. The > unfortunate thing is, it seems that when DEC assisted Oracle ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > in their performance evaluation, they also agreed to only > benchmark Oracle and no competators, for a given time (I wish I > knew what that time limit was). > The problem is no generic benchmark can truly be real world. If you want an acurate benchmark, build your own that models your environment. The problem is it will wind up costing you as much or more to benchmark your system versus implementing it. So those poor IS managers who want to keep their jobs purchase systems from the companies that have the better marketing, higher tpC numbers, and appear more stable. Just remember company A does not want you to know that company B makes a better product or that company C makes one that's just as good and is cheaper. And the fact that all the companies follow the tpcC bandwagon just shows that it is a useless number. -- Ed Bruce edward@igate1.hac.com Key fingerprint = 62 8D FC 8F 27 2F 89 D0 8B 38 7E 34 33 74 C2 36