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Even unofficial benchmarks could give us something meaningful to say. It's
been a while since I even tried to read the specs, but clearly, Wirt is
right, implementing them at all is no trivial effort. I have to wonder how
the TPC would respond to someone announcing unofficial results. Could they
stop us?

Steve Dirickson's points about TPC-R instead of D are well made, and I both
envy and respect his knowledge of these standards. The TPC-C standards seem
more readily suited to what I suspect most of us are used to seeing and
supporting in an application. No SQL interface is required, IIRC (Steve?).
So, I think they could be written using QueryCalc and Image, and, if they
met the TPC's audit requirements, which are also formidable as well as
expensive, they could even be officially accepted. And they are still
relevant; Bill Gates was bragging about their results on TPC-C at the W2K
rollout. At that point, I have to wonder about HP's involvement. I am not
aware of anyone getting an official benchmark accepted, who was not the
system vendor. And could HP shut this down? (and isn't that a sad question
to even have to ask?)

I also recall seeing an article that quoted Mike Yawn as mentioning interest
in a TPC benchmark written in Java/iX, but do not remember the source off
the top of my head, and wonder about the context and contents of the quote.
I would love to hear more on this.

Greg Stigers
http://www.cgiusa.com