New IBM Nonsense

Someone else is going to do it soon or later so I'll beat them to it.

http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/db2/benchmarks/111704.html

And if you believe what you just read ... take a good look at the small print at the bottom of the page.

DB2 was run on:
DB2 UDB on IBM eServer p595 (64-way Power5 1.9GHz): DB2 UDB on IBM eServer p570 16P (16-way Power5 1.9GHz)

While Oracle was run on:
HP Integrity rx5670 Cluster 64P (16 x 4-way Intel Itanium2 6M 1.5GHz) Unisys ES7000 Aries 420 Ent. Server (16-way Intel Itanium2 1.5GHz)

Wow ... I guess IBM is saying a Power5 at 1.9GHz is equivalent to an Itanium2 at 1.5GHz: I don't think so.

Only one citation is for identical hardware and there isn't enough information to make a comparison meaningful. I'm thinking IBM is afraid of a true head-to-head comparison or they wouldn't have had to stoop so low.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
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