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From: awd@dbase.A-T.COM (Alastair Dallas)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Benchmark between dBASE & Oracle!
Summary: No Oracle benchmarks
Message-ID: <514@dbase.A-T.COM>
Date: 11 Apr 90 00:56:23 GMT
References: <1990Apr6.194145.2101@pds3>
Distribution: usa
Organization: Ashton Tate Development Center Glendale, Calif.
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In article <1990Apr6.194145.2101@pds3>, ravi@pds3 (Gorur R. Ravi) writes:
> Gorur R. Ravi)
> 	Does anyone out there have some benchmarking information 
> on the performance of an application running in dBASE on DOS and the same
> running in Oracle on Unix (Preferably on a 386 machine)?

I understand that part of the Oracle license restricts its users from
publishing any benchmark or timing information whatsoever.  I've also
heard from third parties, unofficially, that it's a dog.  There, I said
it.  Flame away--I've never even seen Oracle running.

/alastair/

Big Disclaimer> I am emphatically _not_ speaking for Ashton-Tate this time.