Most reporters have no idea Microsoft is so afraid of being compaired to other products that they kill the competition before it even starts.
"Hey Microsoft! What are you afraid of? A little healthy competition? Not allowing people to run benchmarks of your products is the sign of a company that doesn't trust the power of its products. They have to fix the race before it even starts!"
I've been watching and reading a lot of election coverage. This kind of story will get picked up. Microsoft will have to spend a bit of time running around and explaining why what they are doing is 1) Perfectly legal and 2) Not designed to thwart competition, but simply to blah blah blah.
The point is they would be on the defensive. They would have to show the world just what a cowardly company they are. It isn't good enough to have a monopoly; they also want an Unfair advantage when it comes to testing their product. Chickens. Spocko. Author of www.spockosbrain.com the blog that is sweeping the nation! Now with 19 readers![ Reply to This ]
I guess we can cancel the Olympics now. The metals will be handed out based on the essays written by the athletes themselves and judged on * syntax and spelling .
Did you hear the one about George Bush walking on water. A Microsoft commissioned study concluded that Bush could not swim.[ Parent | Reply to This ]
Unless you can "Get the facts on Microsoft Benchmarks" and actually write some "facts" I would suggest trying http://www.zipit.shut/andsavesomefacewhileyoustillcan.htm
And remember, don't Bogart that crackpipe, my friend :D[ Parent | Reply to This ]
I'm not sure why anyone would think I'd post anonymously on my own website, but this subject is one I'm far too serious about for satirical remarks. And it's one I've been writing about for many years. As I pointed out in my earlier post below, Microsoft does in fact have a history of using or threatening to use the censorship clauses in its license agreements. In addition to the Air Force incident, another case I wrote about several years ago where Microsoft threatened an independent lab can be read here.
This is not just about Microsoft, though, because this is really about free speech. If you say that a Microsoft or an Oracle has the right to determine what you publish about their products, then why can't GM or GE do likewise by putting a sneakwrap "agreement" in their products as well? Consumer Reports could be virtually outlawed if other industries were allowed to do what the software industry attempts to do with the censorship clauses in their EULAs. So I find it strange that anyone thinks these no-publishing-benchmark clauses are defensible.
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CSA/Randall Kennedy; Randall and Microsoft both knew a problem existed somewhere in the benchmarking data, since Randall had a deadline for his paper, the paper was going to be published with skewed results. Microsoft understandably didn't want this published, why would they, it was flawed.
Perhaps an example of were Microsoft actually sued someone for posting benchmark data could be posted? I mean this whole arguement is sounding like a barking dog. Just because you hear the dog barking doesn't automatically mean you're going to see the dog or even get bit by it. [ Parent | Reply to This ]
Call Microsoft in and have their System Engineers tune MS SQL Server to run as quickly as possible. Call MySQL and have them tune MySQL to run as quickly as possible. Call Oracle, IBM, and the authors of PostGreSQL and do the same.
Then run performance tests to see which product is the fastest on identical hardware. That's the only way to get a true idea of which product is fastest and Microsoft's refusal to let anyone else benchmark their products is preventing that type of benchmark from happening.[ Parent | Reply to This ]
You mentioned "benchmarking" sql variants. This has been going on for quite some time. Nobody is hiding the results. Microsoft is NOT hiding their method of achieving their results (nor is anyone else for that matter) in fact the methods MUST be able to be reproduced by other companies or the results are quashed. Want FACTS? http://www.tpc.org The TPC is totally third party and totally independent. MySQL chooses not to compete against Oracle, IBM, or Microsoft (you'd have to ask them why, I'm not sure, but I won't slam them for it) in this industry standard test. Again, Microsoft is not hiding behind some "clause" end of story, the fat lady has sung, stick a fork in it, it's done.
Also, benchmarks are a pretty useless way to judge software, as the "top dog" can change from day to day. Would you want to change your software all the time just so you could have "the fastest"? As far as your suggestion on each company "tuning" their software for a specific benchmark, what would this prove? That Company "A" can "tune" their software to excel at that specific test better than Company "B" or "C"? And then Company "A" would include a caveat: Your mileage may vary. In the end, nothing was proven... [ Parent | Reply to This ]
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