> Vendor provided comparisons between its own products. Comparisons by > Ford between Ford cards don't tell you anything about whether its a > Porsche or Bicycle equivalent. And *no* credible mainstream computing > journalist will trust a vendor provided benchmark. They've seen enough > such material, most of which appears to be compost.
Benchmarketing, as it's known. I think most results could be verified - but they wouldn't be much more use. It's always fun to dig into the _exact_ configuration used for the 'headline' benchmarks - it's usually one that a real user wouldn't dream of installing in a thousand years. Exotic front end preprocessors, various bits of error recovery and/or transaction logging turned off - that kind of thing. -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.com +44 7785 302 803 +49 173 6242039
