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From: greggy@infmx.UUCP (greg yachuk)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: ORACLE on the cheap... questions
Summary: Oracle licensing agreement
Message-ID: <296@infmx.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jul 88 01:39:18 GMT
References: <5165@dasys1.UUCP> <8208@ncoast.UUCP> <178@turbo.oracle.UUCP> <590@hscfvax.harvard.edu>
Organization: Informix Software Inc., Menlo Park, CA.
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In article <590@hscfvax.harvard.edu>, pavlov@hscfvax.harvard.edu (G.Pavlov) writes:
>   A while ago I attempted to arrange a set of cooperative benchmark runs
>   with other sites running other dbms's.  The two Oracle sites I talked to
>   claimed that their license agreements forbade publication of benchmark
>   results.  Don't know if this is completely true, but that is what I was
>   told.

This is indeed true.  We (here at Informix) were unable to publish our
benchmarks versus Oracle because of this very license agreement.  There
are ways around it, though.  You just have to be sneaky (but fully legal)!

>    greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst, ny


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