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To: jim kelley who wrote (24984)	12/17/1999 3:44:00 PM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 64865

Jim - So Dog and you have blown holes in your own argument. If SUNW's disk subsystems are so much better they would do better on the benchmarks than the other companies. They do not. I don't think I said that SUN's disk subsystems were so much better than others, although they are better for certain kinds of work. And Sun is willing to do specific drivers which optimize for a given customer's application needs. This is one of the reasons Sun made such big inroads on Wall Street in the early and mid '90s. And BTW, they did not have the fastest disks or processors then either - just systems which overall produced the combination of application performance, portability across platforms, and headroom in a platform family that customers were looking for. The IBM RS6000 products have always had great individual performance and benchmarks. Not as good as Alpha, which has been the easy performance winner since the early '90s... none the less, neither RS6000 nor Alpha have anywhere near the penetration in key markets that Sun has. Alpha is pretty much relegated to areas where absolute performance is the only thing that counts, and the RS6000 has largely been piggy-backed into IBM "Big Blue" shops as a part of the overall systems sale. I have worked with the TPC Council for many years - they are also on First Street in San Jose... the creation of the benchmarks is a compromise between the hardware vendors - I'll let you have this adjustment to the test that helps you look good if you will allow this other thing that helps me, and by the way, NONE of us want to have this other test that shows how crappy most of our systems really are and only advantages vendor 'Z'... So although benchmarks are a reasonable way to generally divide hardware capability, they are like the EPA gas mileage estimates on cars - your mileage may vary.