This is an industry-wide practice. That is why there have to be special industry accepted benchmark companies. Because the EULAs of software from almost all companies do not allow benchmark or speed testing, no company can do a test and officially disclose the result. If they do, the will then be open to prosecution and penalties.
This also makes it easy for companies to manipulate and influence test results. They only have to make sure it performs perfectly in a specific parameter which the benchmark company will use. There have been complaints by AMD and *** (fogot the name of the company make the cruzeo chip) that the benchmark companies have been bullied and coersed into making the tests in such a way that intel will have better results than what it should get.
Regads Saswata ----- Original Message ----- From: "Prakash Shetty" pshetty@gmx.net To: "Philip S Tellis" linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 11:57 PM Subject: Re[2]: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] MS Eula prohibits .NET Benchmark Disclosures
Hello Philip,
Wednesday, November 13, 2002, 7:27:02 PM, you wrote:
PST> On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Prakash Shetty wrote:
Some interesting stuff i noticed in the windows update agreement license while updating my XP box.
- you may not disclose the results of any benchmark test of the .NET Framework component of the OS Components to any third party without Microsofts prior written approval.
PST> This is pretty old news. Has been around for several years in MS SQL PST> and Oracle licences too.
PST> Philip
Huh .. .NET Framework ... whats that got to do with MS SQL or Oracle ?
or did u mean to say the benchmarking thing ?
Best regards, Prakash Shetty mailto:pshetty@gmx.net