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> I find the no benchmarking clause to be absolutely ridiculous in this environment That's called a DeWitt Clause and most database ELUAs have it. http://en.w
by dustingetz 12y ago
> I find the no benchmarking clause to be absolutely ridiculous in this environment
That's called a DeWitt Clause and most database ELUAs have it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_DeWitt http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_DeWitt
- dave_sullivan 12y agoThe original DeWitt Clause was established by Oracle at the behest of Larry Ellison. Ellison was displeased with a benchmark study done by David DeWitt in 1982, then just an assistant professor, using his new Wisconsin Benchmark, which showed that Oracle's system had poor performance. It takes a special kind of sicko to take someone you don't like, create a fairly dickish policy to basically restrict free speech/fair comparison of products, then name said dickish policy after the person who was trying to encourage the exact opposite. See, if it were just "the ellison clause" it would need no further explanation.