Re: DB2 Crushes Oracle RAC on TPC-C benchmark

Mark A wrote:

>> I was not talking about the cost of Oracle
>>
>>>licenses.
>>
>>In other words you were trying to change the subject. No one has ever
>>tried to do that before.
>>--
>>Daniel A. Morgan

> 
> 
> The TPC benchmarks between DB2 and Oracle use vastly different hardware
> architectures.

Which, in English, translates into the fact that they are not apples to apples comparisons and thus worthless to end users who have made it past their early 20s and are no longer impressed by speed.

TPC ... the benchmark for the adolescent male ... I like the sound of it.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
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