Re: Why you can't trust IBM when it comes to committing to Informix.

Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > Serge, > > I guess that's why you work for IBM. ;-) > > The point was that IBM did release TPC-E benchmarks using IBM hardware > and Microsoft SQL Server. > Where's the IBM benchmark using IBM hardware and IDS? Oh wait! Let me > guess. IBM SWG IM is doing a TPC-E benchmark using IDS and SUN? > Don't think that's going to happen any time soon! Maybe HP? > > As to the TPC-C, > Again. Please correct me if I'm wrong but TPC-C is an *OLTP* BENCHMARK. > Non? > So why is it that IBM will *say* that IDS is their go to platform for > OLTP when they publish a DB2 benchmark in its place? > > Perhaps in some form of twisted IBM logic, spending the time and money > on a TPC-C benchmark with DB2 instead of their stated platform for OLTP > makes sense. > If you're not going to use your "go to OLTP platform" aka IDS, then why > waste the effort showcasing DB2? > > Do ya think John Q public who doesn't know Jack about IDS is going to > listen to a sales rep talk about IDS as their OLTP engine when IBM still > produces TPC-C benchmarks on DB2? > Of course that *ass*u*me*s that you have a sales team that knows IDS > exists and is its OLTP platform of choice. > > C'mon Serge, please stop. You're making me laugh so hard my sides hurt. And making Dan Morgan look like he has been correct in his statements which is totally intolerable. That alone should be reason to change your tune. -- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)

> Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 09:55:28 -0700 > From: damorgan@psoug.org > And making Dan Morgan look like he has been correct in his statements > which is totally intolerable. That alone should be reason to change > your tune. > -- > Daniel A. Morgan Nope. Daniel, you've never been right except by luck. I mean heck, even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while.... But since you've poked your head up out of the ground, how about dem TEMP tables in Oracle. Now the only thing about a temp table that is temporary is that when you end your session, the data is truncated. The table still exists, the statistics on the temp table is shared, and you can't index it if the table has data. Oh and then there's another fun thing. One of the consultants who is an Oracle bigot came up with a neat and nifty way of handling a hierarchy in a string fashion. The queries took 40+ hours to run. Another consultant had to back the changes out and go back to a more simple way and the query only took 20 mins. Seems Oracle can't handle simple string parsing well. _________________________________________________________________ How well do you know your celebrity gossip? http://originals.msn.com/thebigdebate?ocid=T002MSN03N0707A