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To: TGPTNDR who wrote (57665)	5/7/1999 11:49:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571736

Re: "Nice try elmer, but that dog don't hunt See tpc.org, Quoted partially below on the origin of the TPC costing. Total system cost published with the performance rating. Total system cost included all hardware and software used to successfully run the benchmark, including 5 years maintenance costs. Until this concept became law in the TPC process, vendors often quote only part of the overall system cost that generated a given performance rating. " Too bad to are quoting the wrong benchmark TGPTNDR. Why didn't you post the previous paragraph which showed the source of your quotes? It's a 1985 article.... "In the April 1, 1985 issue of Datamation, Jim Gray in collaboration with 24 others from academy and industry, published (anonymously) an article titled, "A Measure of Transaction Processing Power." This article outlined a test for on-line transaction processing which was given the title of "DebitCredit." Unlike the TP1 benchmark, Gray's DebitCredit benchmark specified a true system-level benchmark where the network and user interaction components of the workload were included. In addition, it outlined several other key features of the benchmarking process that were later incorporated into the TPC process:" The benchmarks I referred to are tpc-c, not tp1 and tpc-a that you are posting critiques about. Re: "Note also that ALL of the benchmarks use MS Database & OS." Are you nuts? there is NT, Sun Solaris, Digital Unix, SCO Unix, HP Unix, IBM AIX, SGI IRIX, IBM OS/400, Pyramid Reliant UNIX V5.43CEP, Fujitsu/ICL UXP/DS Basic Software V20L30, and NEC UP-UX/V (REL4.2MP) R7.1 and as many DBMs. EP