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 : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cheryl williamson who wrote (8350)	6/8/1998 5:48:00 PM
From: mozek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

I suppose this is a lot like saying that DELL servers running Microsoft benchmarks beat Sun. Cheryl, you do remember when Sun was caught by the Caffeinemark developer for violating his copyright and including 680 bytes of the Caffeinemark test in their Java runtime in order to delete that code and print a false result, don't you? While this was the only time I know of that they were caught and were forced to admit it (I think they said something like "our engineers were working on advanced optimization techniques and the code shouldn't have shipped" yah, sure), it definitely wasn't the first time they cheated. Now, I'm not saying Sun cheated on the Domino benchmark. They probably didn't, but the Lotus Domino Notesmark is hardly an independent, audited, industry standard benchmark. Is it? Unfortunately, I don't know how to validate their results like I could with their fleeting TPC-C results in order to refute them. Having said all that, they do seem to show that an apple tastes much better than an orange. Got any others? :-) Thanks, Mike