At  08:26 PM 9/14/00, Harry Morris wrote:
>I am looking for information on the performance of an HP3000 959 KS200
>with MPE/iX 6.5 in comparison to the hardware equivalent HP9000 running
>the latest version of HPUX. I would also like to find benchmarking information
>for Image on an MPE/iX system as well as Oracle and/or Informix on an
>HPUX system. Also if anyone knows of any unbiased comparisons of the
>systems I could really use that information also.

Wow...  Talk about your religious questions!

MPE/iX or HP-UX?
Image or SQL?
Oracle or Informix?  (Does it matter?  See prior ponder.)
COBOL or C?
or Powerhouse or Speedware?
or Perl or TCL?
or Java or C# ?  (Don't ask and I won't have to explain.  Thanks.)
compiled or interpreted?
vi or emacs?
Qedit or Quad?
HPedit or Voodoo?  (I'd laugh if it weren't so sad.)
Ford or Chevy?
Coke or Pepsi?
Socialist or Libertarian?
scrambled or fried?
boxers or briefs?

In any case, I suspect the overwhelming consensus of those from HP3000-L
will be that there simply is no comparison.  MPE and Image win in almost
every measurable way, and in some very meaningful though hard to measure
ways, except marketing and market share.  (But then some folks that
probably don't know better might expect those last two have something to do
with each other.  ;)  Although I don't have any hard numbers on any of the
above, I have plenty of opinions.  (Those who oddly want to know may ask
offlist.)  Hopefully, someone with more concrete information will share
them.  (But don't get your hopes up for numbers re: Oracle.  I understand
the Oracle Corporation declares statistics on their software something
along the lines of "data non gratis".)


P.S.  Did someone put you up to this?  :)

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