Re: feature & performance comparison

On Sat, 09 Jun 2001, Mark Townsend wrote:
>in article 992027897.1213837428_at_news.cis.dfn.de, Obnoxio The Clown at
>obnoxio_at_hotmail.com wrote on 6/8/01 12:16 PM:
>
>> On Fri, 08 Jun 2001, Jim Kennedy wrote:
>>> Flame war brewing.
>>> I did notice on the Oracle site an article stating that IBM showed off their
>>> new servers by using Oracle to get some great tpc-c benchmark numbers. The
>>> article goes on to wonder why they did not use DB2 (fair question).
>>>
>>> Draw your own conclusions.
>>
>> Oh, come on! If IBM use DB2 for benchmarks, then other vendors say: "See,
>> you're locked in to IBM". If they use some other vendor's software, then other
>> vendors say: "See, DB2 doesn't perform well, that's why they use Sybase (or
>> whatever)".
>>
>> It's one or the other, surely?
>
>Both. And don't call me Shirley :-)

If you do both, then I'm perfectly justified in calling you Shirley. :-) Received on Sat Jun 09 2001 - 18:32:27 CDT