Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!pyramid!infmx!davek
From: davek@infmx.UUCP (David Kosenko)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: ORACLE on the cheap... questions
Message-ID: <303@infmx.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jul 88 16:44:05 GMT
References: <5165@dasys1.UUCP> <8208@ncoast.UUCP> <178@turbo.oracle.UUCP>
Organization: Informix Software Inc., Menlo Park, CA.
Lines: 24

In article<180@turbo.oracle.UUCP>, rbradbur@oracle.UUCP(Robert Bradbury) writes:
> 
>                                ........... The bottom line is that
> if you want to know how your application will perform on these systems
> YOU MUST BENCHMARK YOUR APPLICATION. ..............
>

	Be careful here - you are assuming that the end-user has a single
application that can be benchmarked.  When this is the case, fine.  But
often, a DBMS is purchased without knowing in advance everything  for
which it will be used.  There may be many, many applications that will
be developed using this product, some of which were not even dreamed
of at evaluation time.  Also, the applications can be very, very
different in structure.  In cases such as these, it becomes impossible 
to benchmark your application.  This leaves the person in charge of making 
a purchase decision dependent upon general benchmark results for performance 
evaluation.

Must dash -
Dave
-- 
Disclaimer:  The opinions expresses herein are by no means those
 of Informix Software.
			"But a man's reach should exceed his grasp
 				or what's a heaven for ?"