From: Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>
To: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org
Cc: John Meyer <john.l.meyer@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] [PERFORM] [ADMIN] Postgres VS Oracle
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:41:29 -0400
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On Tuesday 19 June 2007 00:05, John Meyer wrote:
> Jonah H. Harris wrote:
> > On 6/18/07, John Meyer <john.l.meyer@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Then Oracle fears its users, which explains the "no-benchmark" policy,
> >> which I cannot see any PR honk being able to spin that in any way that
> >> doesn't make Oracle look like it's hiding its head in the sand.
> >
> > The humor I see in constant closed-minded presumptions is slowly fading.
>
> This isn't even a straight out slam at Oracle. My degree comes in mass
> communications, and I cannot understand how anybody could shake the
> perception that Oracle is afraid of open, independent investigations of
> its programs.
> Let's take this at the most beneficial angle that we can, and that is
> that Oracle has seen too many people run their programs straight into
> the ground with some rather lousy benchmarking. If that's the case,
> then the solution is not to bar each and every bench mark out there, it
> is to publish the methodologies to properly tune an Oracle installation.
> It is not to attempt to strangle conversation.
You do realize that not everyone who publishes a benchmark will actually
*want* to do a fair comparison, right?
--
Robert Treat
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