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ZDNN reports that Larry Ellison doesn't want to pay the $1 million bet when he challange MS last comdex regarding Oracle 8 (each company accused the other of misrepresentations), and if you're looking for a job, then Apple is looking for Linux Technology Manager (Credit goes to Linux Today)

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I'd check that tape, Larry

[Skyshadow]

Were I Larry Ellison, I think I'd triple-check
the video tape that MS sent me -- make sure those
icons don't hop around or vanish.

Anyone else notice how long this has taken? The MS
video editing crew must be backed up these days.

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Where's the benchmark?

[Tim Macinta]

So where's the benchmark of Microsoft coming close to Oracle's performance? Weren't they supposed to publish it to get the reward? Anybody have a URL or is a lack of publication why Ellison isn't forking over the cash? The article was kind of bare.

The Correct Link To The Apple Job & My Humble Op..

[myconid]

Finding Jobs at apple.. Linux Tech Manager

I think that is the right area that the link should goto. I think its a good thing(tm) that apple is realizing that their little mac os (-8) isnt the best thing in the world. With them realizing that linux plays a large role in computing, and is also used widly on their boxes, I think that possibly the mac versions of linux / osx could move forward a lot faster giving a lot of enhancements and help the mac version of linux prosper.

Kinda wish they would clean up that open source license though

Stan "Myconid" Brinkerhoff

Funny

[Maarten]

Builds strong internal and external relationships in order to effectively deliver Apple's message to Linux developers and champion their needs and issues within Apple. Works to help Linux developers get seeded with new Apple hardware to guarantee support for our new CPUs.

to effectively deliver Apple's message to Linux developers? And what could that message be? 'forget linux, it has no future, use OS X'? And since when does Apple make their own CPU's? I seem to recall that the CPU's were never the big problem in porting to Apples hardware! Maarten

Microsoft was too late... The challange was closed

[Douglas]

February 22, 1999

Oracle Closes Million Dollar Challenge With 13 Leading TPC-D Benchmarks on Oracle8i(tm)


REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., Feb. 22, 1999--Oracle Corporation today announced another
leading TPC-D benchmark on Oracle8i(tm) and Sun Enterprise 10000 Server. This is the latest
of 13 leading benchmark results which improves by 70 percent over the previous world record,
also held by Oracle8i, and marks the close of the Oracle Million Dollar Challenge. Larry
Ellison, Chairman and CEO of Oracle, issued the Oracle Million Dollar Challenge at his
keynote during Fall COMDEX in November last year. The challenge was for Microsoft, or
anyone else, to make Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 run better than 100 times slower than Oracle8i
database running a particular industry standard benchmark query. Microsoft did not respond to
the challenge, which has been posted on Oracle's Web site (http://www.oracle.com/challenge/)
for the last 3 months.

"Microsoft has had more than three months to respond to the challenge and we haven't heard a
word from them," said Jeremy Burton, vice president of Server Marketing at Oracle. "This is
because SQL Server 7.0 is years behind in data warehousing technology; they have yet to
publish a single TPC-D result. Any customer considering SQL Server should have serious
concerns about their failure to demonstrate performance in the critical data warehousing spac

Typical of Ellison

[Hangtime]

Ellison likes media attention. So when Larry shot his mouth off at Comdex about the challenge to Microsoft I knew he was in for trouble. This is what happens when the world's 2nd largest ego tries to challenge the first. Fork over the cash to charity Ellison, keep your mouth shut and continue to make a good database product.

Hangtime

$1 million dollars

[Emilio]

I think that they both should give $1 million dollars to charity. It's not like they couldn't afford it.

I doubt MS would say that giving the money to the charity is not good enough.