Re: FW: FREE ORACLE SOFTWARE!

In article <3tbj75$s6d@inet-nntp-gw-1.us.oracle.com>, tkyte@us.oracle.com says... >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 > Took a chance and *lost*!? Normally I am not a database partisan but am I reading this correctly? Is this fellow really claiming some kind of kudos for Oracle/Unix outperforming Informix/Dos? Well hey, claim your small victories guy. If that's all you've got. Peter Tashkoff Auckland, NZ