To paraphrase Mark Twain..

Lies, damned lies, statistics, damned statistics, and benchmarks.

http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/03/05/010305opcringely.xml

(paragraph named 'the redmond menace')

Cheers,
GC

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