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From: metro@asi.UUCP (Metro T. Sauper)
Newsgroups: net.database
Subject: Re: vendor-supplied benchmarks
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Date: Wed, 13-Aug-86 17:25:56 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 13 17:25:56 1986
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Organization: Assessment Systems, Inc., Philadelphia, PA
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Summary: vendor benchmarks are valuable.


I feel that vendor benchmarks are valuable.  Obviously vendors will come
up with programs which make their particular software shine above the
competition.  This has great value as long as the benchmark programs are
published as part of the benchmark.  Who would better know how to drive
a database system at its maximum than the vendor?

Examples of high performance benchmarks might give valuable insight to
the best (intended) way of using a database package.

On the Aside -- I see no problems with "advertisements" which have technical
value without purchasing the product. In the example of benchmarks, they
not only show where some programs are better than others, they quite often
show difficiencies between systems that are not even the "favored" system.

Metro T. Sauper, Jr.
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