"Ross J. Reedstrom" wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 12:21:25PM -0400, Ned Lilly wrote:
> > Oh, Dan, I'm not that clever... ;-)
> >
> > But I *can* tell you that the market leading proprietary RDBMS products we
> > tested were not IBM, Informix, or Sybase.
> >
>
> And in reply to the MySQL version comment/question, Ned said:
> "We only used the released versions of each database."
>
> I took that to mean they used the latest released version of each
> database. One thing I couldn't deduce: which operating system where the
> commercial RDBMs run on top of? NT for one of them, for sure, but the
> other can probably run on either of the quoted OSs. If it was run on NT,
> we might be seeing the linux vs. NT effect.
One of them ran on NT, the other four ran on Red Hat Linux 6.1.