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From: mark@drd.com (Mark Lawrence)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: UNIX vs. OS/2 as DataBase Server Comparison
Message-ID: <1991Apr11.223342.1005@drd.com>
Date: 11 Apr 91 22:33:42 GMT
Organization: DRD Corporation
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DBMS magazine has a very interesting article this month comparing OS/2
and UNIX as appropriate DataBase server operating systems.  Seems they
were working on a super server benchmark comparison using Oracle, Ingres,
SQL Server and so forth under OS/2 using various high-end Intel powered
servers and discovered that there wasn't a whole lot of difference in 
performance for a particular vendor across the machines in spite of the
fact that the actual machine performance (and cost) was spread widely.
They began to surmise that the o/s was the bottleneck and decided to
benchmark the same DBs on the same machines varying the o/s.  Interesting
findings (specifically about Oracle on a Compaq SystemPro using OS/2 and
SCO MPX).  More results to come in the following months.

For those of you tasked with keeping up with hot hw/sw combos to serve PC
networks, looks like just the ticket.
-- 
mark@drd.com
mark@jnoc.go.jp