Re: Does anyone read the e-mails from [mailto:db2@news.db2mag.com]

On Aug 5, 8:54 pm, jack.park...@verizon.net wrote: > Sorry, I'm not presently reading this thread. > > j. > > On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 2:12 AM, Mark Townsend wrote: > > > Oracle doesn't compete in > > benchmarks anymore, or at leas we haven't seen any TPC-C or TPC-E > > benchmarks released lately. > > Stop making crap up. Oracle publishes TPC-C's and TPC-H's regulary. This > year alone, Oracle has published 2 TPC-Cs, and a TPC-H. This is one more > TPC-H than IBM has published, and 1 less TPC-C. > > Nobody other than MS is publishing TPC-E's at this stage. Really? How long has the TPC-E been out? IBM recently published one. Why haven't they done this using IDS or DB2 just Microsoft. I did a quick read of the spec. Nothing specifies MS. Kind of interesting.

Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > On Aug 5, 8:54 pm, jack.park...@verizon.net wrote: >> Sorry, I'm not presently reading this thread. >> >> j. >> >> On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 2:12 AM, Mark Townsend wrote: >>> > Oracle doesn't compete in >>> benchmarks anymore, or at leas we haven't seen any TPC-C or TPC-E >>> benchmarks released lately. >> Stop making crap up. Oracle publishes TPC-C's and TPC-H's regulary. This >> year alone, Oracle has published 2 TPC-Cs, and a TPC-H. This is one more >> TPC-H than IBM has published, and 1 less TPC-C. >> >> Nobody other than MS is publishing TPC-E's at this stage. > > Really? > How long has the TPC-E been out? > > IBM recently published one. Why haven't they done this using IDS or > DB2 just Microsoft. > I did a quick read of the spec. Nothing specifies MS. > Kind of interesting. > > Wow - something about IBM politics Gumby doesn't know. Wait - who are you and what have you done with him ? (It's not that we want him back, we just want to know)