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To: ProDeath who wrote (47243)	6/24/2000 5:10:00 PM
From: david_si	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74651

Schmandel: "Benchmarks are of little practical value in the real world" Oh yes they are, when they show 5-times better performance with "real world" applications for hundreds-of-thousands of dollars less than the Sun solution. Schmandel: "We've already established that you don't get out much, so it comes as no surprise that you seem to take benchmarks so seriously." Perhaps you need to take benchmarks MORE seriously. Surely Sun and Oracle do. If they don't improve their cost-to-performace numbers they'll fall behind. Nice resort to name-calling, again.

To: ProDeath who wrote (47243)	6/24/2000 5:47:00 PM
From: david_si	Respond to of 74651

Inaccuracy in my last post: Sorry for the inaccuracy: the Wintel performance isn't 5-times better, only about 2-times. Price-to-performace is about 5-times better. You may argue that these benchmarks don't represent real world data. I would argue that they test real-world extremes. Surely Sun and Oracle would agree when they recently owned the top of the list. Regardless of how legitimate these benchmarks are, they show that Sun and Oracle don't have it in the bag.