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Re: Benchmarking forbidden?

• To: David Megginson <david@m...>,XML Dev <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: Benchmarking forbidden?
• From: Dave Pawson <dpawson@n...>
• Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 17:37:38 +0100
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At 14:39 10/06/2003 -0400, David Megginson wrote:
>Tim Bray writes:



>On the other hand, it sounds like a wonderful marketing opportunity
>for Oracle, Sun, or IBM: publish an ad with benchmarks for competing
>software, but put a "0" in every Microsoft column (or "9999999," as
>appropriate).  Other possibilities:
>
>   Our brand X is 1.2 times faster than Oracle and 1.5 times faster
>   than IBM ...
>   ... and it's so much faster than Microsoft that they've taken legal
>   steps to keep us from telling you!

<chuckles/> Nice one David.
'bout sums it up?

regards DaveP

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    • From: "Derek Denny-Brown" <derekdb@m...>
  • Re: Benchmarking forbidden?
    • From: David Megginson <david@m...>

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