RE: 64 bit Windows...

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

IBM would withhold things if it meant hurting sales of a different platform 
they wanted to push harder. At least in some cases a couple years ago, some 
iSeries benchmarks were not allowed to be published, because the plan 
seemed to be to promote pSeries more. Server group nonsense, very 
frustrating. Internal politics. I hope the present situation is better.

At 03:28 PM 4/28/2005, you wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Walden H. Leverich wrote:
>
> > TPC-C and -W are meant to be workload measurements, not cycle speed
> > measurements. Tell IBM to run the tests on an iSeries and you'd see how
> > it compares.
> >
> > I would guess that they've not don't that because they believe that
> > people who buy iSeries's don't care about TPC benchmarks. At least I
> > hope that's why. The other option is they don't like the results.
>
> Does anyone believe that if the tests have been run and the results are 
> good that IBM would withold them?  Me neither.  So either the tests have 
> not been run or the results are not good (my conclusion).
>
> James Rich
>
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