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Thank you for posting this. While the slashdot threads have their share of
blather, it was worth skimming. While I do think that MS has little choice
about suing over any public violation of their EULA (and it's not clear if
Larry lipping off in public legally constitutes a "publishing a report"),
Bill G should be happy with surprising and embarrassing Oracle by replacing
them at the top of the TPC benchmarks, and * not * comment publicly on this,
embarrassing himself more than Larry ever could.

Also, this childish bickering does show that at least this two adult
children take these benchmarks seriously. But while they both have the
reputation for wanting to have the bigger house or the bigger boat, they are
no fools. Being able to produce good numbers is not just marketing smoke and
mirrors.

I wonder, if folks ever did put together TPC-C or some other benchmark for
Image, does our license prohibit publishing our results?

Greg Stigers
http://www.cgiusa.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Neil Armstrong [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 3:35 PM
To: Stigers, Greg [And]; [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: OT: TPC-C et al

Interestingly there is a report on slashdot that Microsoft is upset
by a quote that Larry Ellison commented that MS SQL Server only
performs well on benchmarks, not real apps.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/10/27/1457215&mode=thread

Even more humorous is the fact that Ellison's comments violate
the SQL Server license agreement. Which is even more humorous,
because Oracle's agreement, (last time I saw one) said the same
thing.

So did Compaq break the agreement then, or do you only break the
agreement when the results are not as good. :)

Neil