> Back in the 1980s, there was a paper published[1] that compared a number of database systems, and Oracle felt this paper harmed them. This is rather an argu

> Back in the 1980s, there was a paper published[1] that compared a number of database systems, and Oracle felt this paper harmed them. This is rather an argument why the benchmark code should be made public so that other people can check it and vendors can post modified versions if they feel treated unfairly.