Re: Informix Vs Oracle <== SPAM (kinda)

} } >> } >> Sorry.... just had to gloat. } >> kmart!jregep } >> } } >I happen to agree with you, but sales and PR people are a slimy bunch } >and apt to twist facts to fit what they want you to believe. Having been } > : } >- all it really means is that the benchmark crew for the Informix team won - } > : } > ... It wasn't a statement on the products so much as on the } >amount of time he was allowed to put into the benchmark. ...But don't tell } >anybody else I said that.... :-) } } Interesting... } } So you're saying that the statement "After a thorough testing period } evaluating performance, reliability, scalability..." really means, allowing } the vendor to 'show his wares'. } } You don't feel that MCI did the benchmarking? At least they would have been } there watching over things, don't you think?. } } Still if MCI were putting their company at stake, they would want as much } of an impartial, honest evaluation as is possible. } } Of course 'as is possilble' could mean 'just a little bit better'. } } kmart!jregep } [Benchmarks: Just like graphs, you can prove anything.] } : } I've worked on benchmarks before... Oracle as a vendor ("slimy sales" type) and Sybase as a customer. In most cases the vendor is ready and willing to accept as much assistance and involvement from the customer as possible. And most customers are not so foolish as to blindly trust a vendors cooked-up benchmark. Organizations that have good IS infrastructure usually are pretty sharp when it comes to evaluations and take them quite seriously, as they're betting the farm on it. If you choose to question the integrity of a vendor, so be it, but don't ever under-estimate the intelligence of the customer. -- //////////////// Mark Sigler, Systems Engineer ////////// // Informix Software, Inc. ////// / /// 1000 West McNab Road ///// // //// Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33069 //// // ///// Voice: (305) 781-2646 /// // ////// Fax: (305) 781-2029 // // /////// Voicemail: (800) 688-4217 x 2147 / /////////// Email: MSigler@Informix.Com //////////////// WWWeb: HTTP://WWW.Informix.Com/ --