RE: New TPC-C Result for SQL Server 2005

A nice little US$38K system ... and it's 64bit as well ...

This is great news - congratulations are in order to Dell for being the first to beat the $1 per tpmC threshold for TPC-C price/performance. Yesterday Dell published a result of 38,622 tpmC with a price/performance of 0.99 $/tpmC. Dell used SQL Server 2005 x64 Standard Edition running on an Intel dual-core Xeon CPU (Paxville). This highlights both SQL Server 2005 performance and the TCO advantage of dual-core pricing model. The best results from Oracle and DB2 are 1.81 and 1.61 $/tpmC, respectively. (See the TPC-C Top Ten list http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_price_perf_results.asp.)

[Via Benjamin Jones]

Go Swans

Swans by less than 10 points

Sauce Reader on eBay ...

Just discovered this. As mentioned in my earlier post Synop have closed for business. Today I found that they've put the source code for Sauce Reader up on eBay!!

The Secunia Weekly Advisory

The Secunia Weekly Advisory Summary
2005-09-15 - 2005-09-22

This week : 58 advisories

Windows : 6 Vulnerabilities
Unix/Linux : 38 Vulnerabilities
Other : 4 Vulnerabilities
Cross Platform : 10 Vulnerabilities

Cross your fingers and try again ...

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Now that's what I call a comforting error message :) Why can't we have error messages like this in all applications ??