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To: Stormweaver who wrote (16735)	5/30/1999 10:43:00 PM
From: paul	Respond to of 64865

"..While your at it Paul, Alpha beats Sun on TPC-D, SpecJVM98, SpecWeb, SpecCPU, McCalpin Streams..." If Alpha is so scalable how come they havent published a benchmark for a database bigger than 300 gigabytes? - Compaq/DEC has a better number at that size but only because theyve submitted a recent result this year, if you look at their benchmark submitted the same time as the last Sun 300GB result, Sun has much better numbers at a much lower cost. How about the 1 TB numbers which Sun dominates? surely a company who is going to implement a data warehouse that cost nearly 2.5 million dollars (look at the Compaq full disclosure report) may want to grow beyond 300GB - or is compaq targeting this at the Small Business Market? And Sun has better Spec_Int_FP rates than alpha using the current 400 Mhz Ultrasparc chip at 8 cpu's - the highest number compaq has submitted a result for - i would compare the many submissions above that for Sun except Compaq doesnt have any. OK..so lets see, Sun is better and cheaper at TPC-C's, more scalable at TPC-D's, and better at floating point for multiple CPU's.. ok, i better check out those McAlpin Streams.