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Conference ulysse::rdb_vms_competition

Title:DEC Rdb against the World
Moderator:HERON::GODFRIND
Created:Fri Jun 12 1987
Last Modified:Thu Feb 23 1995
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1348
Total number of notes:5438

821.0. "Who is the TPC?" by MBALDY::LANGSTON (assimpleaspossiblebutnotsimplr) Wed Dec 05 1990 21:37

Who are the members of the TPC?

Who is the chairman, other officers, etc.?

Bruce
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821.139 participantsIJSAPL::OLTHOFHenny Olthof @UTO 838-2021Fri Dec 07 1990 11:3816
    Ok, get set for the list of participants (november 1990, 39 members)
    
    Amdahl, Arix, AT&T, Bull S.A., Computer Associates, Compaq, Contol Data
    Corp., Data General, Digital Equipment, Fujitsu America, Hewlett
    Packard, Hitachi Ltd, IBM, ICL, Informix, Ingres, Intel, ITOM International
    Corp, MIPS Computer, Mitsubishi Electric Corp, NCR, NEC Corp, OKI
    Electric Industry, Olivetti, Oracle, Prime Computer, Pyramid
    Technology, Sequent Computer, Sequoia Systems, Siemens A.G., Software
    A.G., Stratus Computer, Sun Microsystems, Sybase, Tandem Computers,
    Teradata Corp., Unify Corp, Unisys, Wang Laboratories.
    
    
    Founder was Omri Selin from ITOM International. Don't know of any
    positions of companies within the TPC.
    
    Henny Olthof, TP-DB Netherlands
821.2Usable as a competitive sales tool?MBALDY::LANGSTONassimpleaspossiblebutnotsimplrSat Dec 15 1990 00:3019
re: 823.8  TPC-B results, not accepted yet

  �  As far as I know, Oracle has only published TPC-B numbers until now.
  �  And even those numbers are still not accepted by the TPC as they did
  �  not pass all the test they need to (like ACID, clause 2).
  �  
  �  Henny Olthof, TP-DB Netherlands

  What does "not accepted by the TPC" mean, and what are the competitive sales
  implications?  Is there some public, on-the-record comment by some TPC 
  official to that effect?  Whose numbers *have* been accepted? 

  Even if our 4.0 numbers have been "accepted," I don't know that we'd want to
  brag about it.  I'm still waiting for the "real" 4.0 numbers, i.e. the ones 
  that show it faster than 3.1, not slower, to come out.

  We need help telling the customers that Rdb is a wise choice.

  Bruce
821.3The procedureIJSAPL::OLTHOFHenny Olthof @UTO 838-2021Mon Dec 17 1990 08:3417
    re -1:
    
    Results of TPC (trademark!) tests have to be submitted to the TPC
    committee before they may be published. This committee checks, if the
    conditions pass the test (clauses mentioned in the benchmark
    specification). If not, the test may not be published as a TPC test.
    
    TPC is a registered trademark so any misuse can have serious
    consequences for the one who does that. Our V4.0 results have been
    accepted as you can see from the blue-book presentations. Other tests
    have also been accepted like HP and IBM AS400 (TPC-A).
    
    I was also sorry to see the Rdb/VMS V4.0 results slower than the V3.1.
    The direct comparison between the two versions in an external document
    was just st...
    
    Henny Olthof, TP-DB Netherlands