At 01:11 PM 8/18/00 -0300, Jeff MacDonald wrote:
>I have a friend who works at IBM on DB2, i showed
>her "the benchmark" just for kicks.. (we teach each
>other over who's is better etc.. all good fun)
>
>anyway she sends me back this article about how DB2
>blows the lid off of TPC-C.. just proof that any
>benchmark can mean anything..
Sure they do, IBM still makes mainframes far more powerful
than puny dual-processor Linux boxes...
The "proprietary 1", mySQL and Postgres tests were all run
on the same operating system/hardware combination, at
least.
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