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On Benchmarketing: The role of unicode
Saturday, September 20. 2008
When you look at the recent SAP SD certifications about the HP and the Sun systems based on Intels new hexacore proc, a cursory observer may have the impression, that either Solaris10+MaxDB is much slower than Windows+SQLServer or that Sun has somehow has fscked up the System. But as usual the explanation is in the details: The HP/Microsoft result is a non-unicode result, the Sun result is a unicode result. Why is this important? There is a good presentation made by SAP about the expected performance impact: between 15% more CPU load on new procs and 30% more CPU load on older procs and 50% more memory by using Unicode. So itīs important to know for reading benchmarketing: You canīt compare non-unicode and unicode benchmark results for SAP.
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Ok, so tomorrow several thousand people will have to decide wether they are going a buy HP or Sun (not necessarliy for running SAP) and browse the web for benchmarks. My guess: 95% of them will not even recognize the unicode thing and 98% won' t understand the difference - and buy HP.
Why is Sun always making such marketing mistakes?
Why is Sun always making such marketing mistakes?
1. This is the reason, why i write about benchmarks .... Pagerank 6 helps 
2. This isnīt a marketing error ... the Unicode ist the relevant value ... but this is the problem: Sun is a engineering company. We are too honest ....
2. This isnīt a marketing error ... the Unicode ist the relevant value ... but this is the problem: Sun is a engineering company. We are too honest ....
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Okay, okay ... as several people have asked for it ... but you know my opinion.
Why did i wrote the article about the "non-unicode/unicode" benchmarketing? Because of articles like this one: SAP-Benchmarkergebnisse für Intels neuen Hexa-Core-Prozessor. Itīs frighting. The publications of the publisher Heise had a good reputation in
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