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From: gupta@cai.com
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Oracle Server on OS/2 versus UNIX: DBMS magazines Conclusion
Message-ID: <378.280f6241@cai.com>
Date: 19 Apr 91 21:33:53 GMT
References: <1991Apr15.135105.4759@drd.com>
Organization: Computer Associates International
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In article <1991Apr15.135105.4759@drd.com>, mark@drd.com (Mark Lawrence) writes:
> ajayshah%alhena.usc.edu@usc.edu (Ajay Shah) wrote:
>> 
>> You carefully avoided putting any spoilers in your preview... now
>> could you just do a short summary?
> 
> "Conclusion
> 
> As you can see from Figure 1 [:-)], our tuned run of UNIX Oracle for
> the batch transactions ran roughly twice as fast as it had under OS/2.
> [...]

A point that some might find of significance in this "benchmark" is that
the machine used was a dual CPU multiprocessor.  The operating system
OS/2 does not support symmetric multi-processing.  The SCO UNIX does.
Now the people at DBMS wonder why UNIX is faster...