Re: Liars Figure and Figures Lie - Sybase ad

["Bruce Odum" <bodum@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

they are also compairing it to a old as400 not the new servers where they
came out ahead of this run.  You always can have the best system if you get
to pick out the compairason's
-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Larkin <blarkin@wt.net>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Tuesday, March 24, 1998 5:02 AM
Subject: Liars Figure and Figures Lie - Sybase ad


>Computter World, March 23, 1998 Page 39
>Full page ad touting Sybase Adaptive Server as "The Fastest Database".
>Compared to Oracle , DB2/400, and Sql Server (Duh)
>Big question, why does DB2 appear so slow. No details on hardware
>configuration, except AS/400e 12 processor.  Their web site
>http://www.sybase.com/adaptiveserver/tpc_98/press_release.html
>lists a TpmC of 25,150 at $125/TpmC for DB2, 52,117 TpmC at $81/TpmC for
>Sysbase on an HP 9000 V-Class Enterprise Server running on only 16
>PA-8200 240MHz processors.
>
>Does anyone have any other information on this.
>
>

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