Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!pyramid!infmx!greggy 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. Lines: 18 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 Greg Yachuk Informix Software Inc., Menlo Park, CA (415) 322-4100 {uunet,pyramid}!infmx!greggy !yes, I chose that login myself And they offered us a roof above our heads And like fools we beleived every last word they said. -- The Christians