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Article #260Re: vendor-supplied benchmarks
From: Metro T. Sauper
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1986 21:25
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1986 21:25
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I feel that vendor benchmarks are valuable. Obviously vendors will come up with programs which make their particular software shine above the competition. This has great value as long as the benchmark programs are published as part of the benchmark. Who would better know how to drive a database system at its maximum than the vendor? Examples of high performance benchmarks might give valuable insight to the best (intended) way of using a database package. On the Aside -- I see no problems with "advertisements" which have technical value without purchasing the product. In the example of benchmarks, they not only show where some programs are better than others, they quite often show difficiencies between systems that are not even the "favored" system. Metro T. Sauper, Jr. ihnp4!ll1!bpa!metro
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!caip!cbmvax!bpa!asi!metro From: metro@asi.UUCP (Metro T. Sauper) Newsgroups: net.database Subject: Re: vendor-supplied benchmarks Message-ID: <8@asi.UUCP> Date: Wed, 13-Aug-86 17:25:56 EDT Article-I.D.: asi.8 Posted: Wed Aug 13 17:25:56 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 16-Aug-86 05:49:54 EDT References: <2957@ihuxf.UUCP> <5547@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Organization: Assessment Systems, Inc., Philadelphia, PA Lines: 17 Summary: vendor benchmarks are valuable.