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From: jkrueger@dgis.dtic.dla.mil (Jon)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Performance Data (was Re: Client/Server processes and implementations)
Keywords: performance measurement RDBMS
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Date: 22 Nov 89 23:23:13 GMT
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tim@binky.sybase.com (Tim Wood) writes:

>Your question puts us in something of a bind.  If we don't give data,
>folks can say, "shucks, we want data."  If we give data, folks might say, 
>"you're a vendor, we don't believe your data; besides, it doesn't measure my
>application--TP1's are meaningless."  And so on.  

Just provide measurements we can replicate, at least in principle.  
Cf. the MIPS Performance Brief.

-- Jon
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Jonathan Krueger    jkrueger@dtic.dla.mil   uunet!dgis!jkrueger
Isn't it interesting that the first thing you do with your
color bitmapped window system on a network is emulate an ASR33?