Comment Both failed the OSS challenge (Score 1) 239
I've been a DBA for a good few years, done a lot of performance work on many different platforms. From my day-to-day work getting reports/transactions to run in a timely fashion I can tell you what this means to me. Squat.
The TPC benchmarks have to be analyzed properly to understand what they really are telling you. Not just that, the real point here is that we have two multi-million companies throwing their weight around and posturing. It doesn't help people trying to admin databases at all. It benefits some egos of some rich guys and ups the profit margin for a while.
Under OSS this kind of challenge would become 'Hey, I just found this neat way to make this box go faster. Why don't you have a look at the code and see if you can use or improve it?'
This whole shooting match just further exposes the true weakness of proprietary software. If knowledge is held under guard, copyrighted and isolated its benefits wither and die. It serves to make money for a few for a short while and nothing more. The progress that has been made in database technology over the past 10 years that I have worked in the industry has been produced by chance from short-sighted industry players following fashions like butterflys in the wind. (what a crap analogy)
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The TPC benchmarks have to be analyzed properly to understand what they really are telling you. Not just that, the real point here is that we have two multi-million companies throwing their weight around and posturing. It doesn't help people trying to admin databases at all. It benefits some egos of some rich guys and ups the profit margin for a while.
Under OSS this kind of challenge would become 'Hey, I just found this neat way to make this box go faster. Why don't you have a look at the code and see if you can use or improve it?'
This whole shooting match just further exposes the true weakness of proprietary software. If knowledge is held under guard, copyrighted and isolated its benefits wither and die. It serves to make money for a few for a short while and nothing more. The progress that has been made in database technology over the past 10 years that I have worked in the industry has been produced by chance from short-sighted industry players following fashions like butterflys in the wind. (what a crap analogy)
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