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   Re: [xml-dev] Benchmarking forbidden?

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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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