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To: antonn who wrote (10144)	3/16/1999 9:49:00 PM
From: Adam Nash	Read Replies (1) of 19079

What do people think of this? Microsoft meets Oracle's 1 million dollar challenge: biz.yahoo.com Ridiculous! Check out this quote: "To demonstrate the value of the platform, Microsoft and HP worked together on an alternative approach to the Challenge. Using SQL Server 7.0 Enterprise Edition, SQL Server OLAP Services and HP's Net Server LXr 8000 enterprise server systems to build a 1 TB TPC-D database, Microsoft solved the same business problem, obtaining remarkable results at a fraction of the cost of the Oracle solution -- a $600,000 system vs. a $10 million system." Hilarious! This is marketing speak for: "We couldn't do it, but we did put together a really big system that does important things - and it is much cheaper!" You see, the Oracle challenge had one thing in it that MS hates: real benchmarks. For MS, it's all about "solving the business issue," which for an engineer means "smoke and mirrors." MS is about redefining what is satisfactory, and then delivering it. And they will...

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