Brian Duncombe wrote:
>
> At 03:22 PM 3/8/2001 -0500, Wirt Atmar wrote:
> >Regardless of their general acceptance, these would be concrete numbers.
> >There would be nothing nebulous about the results.
>
> YES!
>
> Unfortunately, all licensees of Oracle are contractually prohibited from
> publishing performance results, at least the licenses that I have seen
> prohibit publication and I have heard others voice a similar sentiment.  I
> suppose that if someone has actually published TPC-D results for an
> HP9000-Oracle combination then we could accept those.
>

Maybe someone knows of some little country with a web server off the
beaten contract path of nations where such results could be published
anonymously, but then we could all link to it.

Richard

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