Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Oracle Corporation (ORCL) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tom C who wrote (11340)	7/16/1999 6:44:00 AM
From: Kevin Yang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19079

Tom, Don't know what you mean. > the article you posted resulted from the App Server tests. These are not DB tests. The article claimed that Microsoft is beginning to DOMINATE performance. The first test cited was the App Server test. The second was the "Transaction Processing Performance Council's TPC test". Of which MSFT made the top 10 using ORACLE's database. Oracle DB on NT scored 50,000plus transactions per minute vs the 25,000 number using Microsoft SQL Server. How did you interpret that not to be a DB test?? >Who knows how large the databases were, probably small. Are you suggesting that if the databases were small, the test would benefit Oracle? Please explain. Referring to the App Server test, the NT platform was running on the maximum 4-CPU configuration possible for NT. Whereas the other systems were running at the lowest configurations supported. FYI, Solaris scales up easily to 64 or is it 128 CPUs. To cite this test result and then proclaim that Microsoft is 'dominating performance' is so far away from truth that even a share holder like me find it hard to swallow. Don't get me wrong, I am not discounting MSFT. They are relentless. And the fact that we are having this conversation points to the effectiveness of their media control and marketing power. Which is why I am holding their stock for the short term. However, I am a long term holder of ORCL's stock for their technical competency. K-)

To: Tom C who wrote (11340)	7/16/1999 11:34:00 AM
From: John Stichnoth	Respond to of 19079

Unfortunately the value of PC Mag's assessments is questionable, when MSFT is involved, given ZD's links to Bill G. Also, FWIW, I know of one major investment house that is reviewing a move from Sybase. SQL server didn't make the first cut, I'm told. This is big business. But, that's where the action is on DBMS, I believe. The question is not whether MSFT can eat into the large database market (they can't with their present offerings), but whether (1) ORCL and perhaps IBM can transition to the middle market, and/or (2) how fast outsourcing of database maintenance might take hold, further helping large DBMS growth. imho, of course.