MICROSOFT TO RESPOND TO ORACLE $1M CHALLENGE IN JAN.Microsoft Corp will issue a response to Oracle Corp's $1m database challenge in January 1999, officials said yesterday. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a spokesperson for Redmond, the company has accepted the challenge and will publish the relevant benchmark tests some time in January. The news comes after Oracle officials last week told ComputerWire that Microsoft had yet to formerly respond to the challenge. The latter pits the Oracle8i database against Microsoft's new SQL Server An earlier relational DBMS from Sybase and from Microsoft. Sybase introduced SQL Server in 1988 for various Unix versions. In that same year, with help from IBM, Sybase created an OS/2 version that Microsoft licensed and branded as Microsoft SQL Server. 7.0 database. Specifically, Oracle said it would pay $1m to the first person who can demonstrate that SQL Server 7.0 can come within 100 times of Oracle's best published performance for query number 5 of the current TPC-D A benchmark that measures decision support performance. See TPC. specification (a benchmark specifically designed to test database performance). To comply, the challenger would have to run a complete 1-terabyte TPC-D benchmark, including all requirements for loading, updating and querying data and publish a full disclosure report of all performance metrics Performance metrics are measures of an organizations activities and performance. Performance metrics should support a range of stakeholder needs from customers, shareholders to employees [1]. . Oracle further specified that the bench mark has to be audited by a TPC-certified auditor to ensure compliance with TPC (Transaction Processing Performance Council, San Francisco, CA, www.tpc.org) An organization devoted to benchmarking transaction processing systems. In order to derive the number of transactions that can be processed in a given time frame, TPC benchmarks measure the total performance of benchmark rules. Ken Jacobs, Oracle's VP, server product development said the company did receive a phone call immediately after OpenWorld but that it had heard nothing since Oracle formerly posted details of the challenge on its web site on November 16. He said it was posted because Microsoft had been making "unsubstantiated claims" about Sequel server but, up till now, it hasn't issued any TPC-D benchmarking data at all. "It's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a for Microsoft to put up or shut up," Jacobs said, "it hopes the challenge will go away but it won't." For its part, Oracle said it published a new record 1- terabyte TPC-D benchmark on November 3 for fast datawarehouse query response running Oracle8i on Sun's EnterpriseTM 10000 server and the SolarisTM operating environment In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. . The Microsoft spokesperson said the delay in issuing a response was due to the fact that Ellison had actually issued a number of $1m challenges and there was some confusion as to which one Microsoft had to respond to. "At OpenWorld, Ellison said 200 times faster, but the final posting said 100 times," she said, "based on the final challenge posted on Oracle's web site, we will be issuing a response in January," she added. For more details on Oracle's challenge see www.oracle.com/challenge. |
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