Analysis from 30,000 ft.
Unix results are 2-3x more expensive than NT.
- Doesn’t matter which DBMS
Unix results are more scalable
- Unix: 10, 12, 16, 24 way SMPs
- NT: 4-way SMP w/ Intel & 8-way SMP on Digital Alpha
Highest performance is on clusters
- only a few results (trophy numbers?)