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Microsoft Wants $1M of Larry Ellison

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the now-there-is-a-bet dept.

Jabberwocky writes "Well, it didn't happen overnight, but Microsoft claimed that on Wednesday it will be able to demonstrate that it can indeed meet the $1 million challenge issued by database arch rival Oracle in November 1998. The whole thing hinges on whether or not "anyone using Microsoft's SQL Server with a 1 terabyte TPC-D database to run a standard data-warehouse business query within 100 times of Oracle's best published performance." Microsoft is aparantly going to give it a shot using SQL Server 7.0 which it just released. "

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  1. They are probably using a modified NT/SQL 7.0 by perfecto · · Score: 2

    #1 the response period ended already
    #2 they are probably using a modified version of nt/sql 7
    #3 they are probably going to use a multiplier to argue that the cost benefit ratio is better (i.e. they shrink the dataset to get closer results to hide its scalability problems)
    #4 there's still no mention of the tpc-d benchmark
    #5 the microsoft web site that's included in this link is slow as shit! i bet it goes down for the event!

    go kick ass larry!!


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  2. And it cost M$ how much? by Mickey+Jameson · · Score: 2

    It probably cost them tens of millions of dollars to develop their new and "improved" SQL server. What's $1 million back?
    Besides, Oracle probably came up with some funky test that will most definitely slow to a crawl on M$'s server... It's rather comical.

  3. SQL Failed Once... by flanker · · Score: 2

    Yes, what a joke that site is. A terabyte of data - but its like 1000 really big pictures. Ooo it
    really takes a powerful RDBMS to keep track of
    1000 pieces of information. Access might even be
    able to do it.

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  4. This could actuallt work against MS by SoftwareJanitor · · Score: 2

    One, I think they're doing it for the money =)

    Two, Oracle could turn around and point out that MS struggled and strained just to *finally* come within a factor of 100 of Oracle's wares...

    Microsoft needs to do more than get within a factor of 100, if they don't get within a factor of 16, then Oracle still 'wins' because that is what Microsoft claims the cost-benefit of their solution vs. the Oracle one is. Even if they can do that, Oracle still wins because their solution is still going to be far more reliable.

  5. This could actuallt work against MS by Gottjager · · Score: 2

    One, I think they're doing it for the money =)

    Two, Oracle could turn around and point out that MS struggled and strained just to *finally* come within a factor of 100 of Oracle's wares...

  6. SQL Failed Once... by yacko · · Score: 2

    If this Microsoft SQL Server is anything like the TerraServer it had on the web for satellite imaging maps.. Oracle gets to keep its million.

    yacko