regardless (pretty much) of the validity of the test methodology, these
results are not good for InterBase(r). Most people will simply read the
results (perhaps quickly) and not critically. And certainly those who do
not know InterBase(r) will not be aware of the issues anyway. Its a Press
Release, ie a marketing ploy more than anything else. The only way to
effectively counteract marketing is with marketing. That isn't happening
now and until it does by newco, inprise or whomever, will remain
unchallenged.

rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Palley" <Dan@...>
To: <IB-Architect@egroups.com>
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 4:46 PM
Subject: RE: [IB-Architect] PostgreSQL 7 benchmark


> Well, the results compared to Interbase were based on a single benchmark
> (AS3AP), since they couldn't get the TPC benchmark to work with the
> Intersolv ODBC driver.
>
> Also, they don't mention whether the Interbase version was classic or
> Superserver; I'd expect Classic to fall apart after a large number of
users,
> based on the lack of a shared cache. The benchmark PC Week did a while
ago
> showed the same thing (using 5.6 for Linux).
>
> Dan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Karwin [mailto:bill@...]
> Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 4:03 PM
> To: IB-Phoenix@egroups.com
> Subject: [IB-Architect] PostgreSQL 7 benchmark
>
>
> Hmm. Not such good news for InterBase.
>
> http://apachetoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-08-14-008-01-PR-MR-SW
> (be careful of URL wrap)
>
> Bill Karwin
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