3 posts and columns on TPC

Oracle Sets Database Speed Record; Larry Ellison Disses HP

in Enterprise on December 2, 2010 at 3:53 pm PT

On the day of the premiere of a Bloomberg TV documentary that promises to burnish his legend, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison also got to brag that Oracle had retaken the current land speed record in database computing from IBM. Of course he used the opportunity to engage in his favorite new hobby: Taunting Hewlett-Packard.

"Sun + Oracle is Fast"? Not So Fast…

in News on September 30, 2009 at 5:30 am PT

If you’re going to claim in an advertisement that Transaction Processing Council benchmarks show that a hybrid Sun-Oracle server runs faster than a competing product from IBM, it’s probably wise to make sure you have the TPC benchmarks to back up your claim. Not if you’re Oracle, though.
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“Sun + Oracle is Fast”? Not So Fast…

in News on September 30, 2009 at 5:30 am PT

If you’re going to claim in an advertisement that Transaction Processing Council benchmarks show that a hybrid Sun-Oracle server runs faster than a competing product from IBM, it’s probably wise to make sure you have the TPC benchmarks to back up your claim. Not if you’re Oracle, though.
oraclead2