On 3/13/06 5:50 PM, "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin.Grittner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The license for the commercial product contains a clause which > prohibits disclosing benchmarks of their product without their written > permission. (Heaven only knows why they would include such a clause.) > My comment is not based on any formal benchmarks, but on the graphs > produced by our monitoring of the production software under real loads, > and on the query metrics from our middle tier software in the production > environment. Even though it would be a huge stretch to call the > comparison a benchmark under these conditions, this is a litigious > society. I'm sure you understand my concern. > > Short of being compelled by law to open our records, I'm not > comfortable providing any performance comparison which names the > vendor. Hmm.. What vendor throws such a clause into all their licensing agreements. Sounds suspiciously like Microsoft... I'm not a lawyer, but I believe things such as what vendors a government entity is using is required by law to be public information. Wes
