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Technology Stocks : Applix is back in action
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To: Sr K who wrote (2083)1/8/1998 8:43:00 AM
From: Warren Whitney   of 3014
 
I agree with you on the "more than 100 times smaller". You can never be more than 100% smaller, (or 1X smaller) because that would be negative size. This has been a pet peeve of mine - and I agree it lowers their credibility. However, Rod is correct about the speed claims - something *can* be more than 100% faster than something else. For example, it's correct to say that an airliner at 600 mph is ten times as fast (nine time faster) than an auto at 60 mph. It is not correct, however, to say that the airliner takes ten times less time. That would be meaningless.

By the way, the test results were reported by Applix but the benchmark was designed by the OLAP council (http://www.olapcouncil.org/) and the report includes comments by various people outside Applix including Nigel Pendse, lead author of The OLAP Report. Obviously an attempt to add some amount of "independent, outside" flavor. I myself have no insight, but I hope the results are as significant as Applix claim.
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