Oracle Claims Bragging Rights Over Microsoft In Low-End Database
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| With low-priced hardware running the Linux operating system, which
| is free, Oracle beat Microsoft's SQL Server in price and performance,
| based on Microsoft's most recently published TPC-C benchmark.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199903273
Forget about performance. Microsoft's buggy software may have actually
(probably) affected the outcome of the elections.
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| Problems found in an audit of Diebold tabulation records from an Ohio
| November 2006 election raise questions about whether the database got
| corrupted during the tabulation of election results...
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| The database is built from Microsoft's Jet database engine. The
| engine, according to Microsoft, is vulnerable to corruption when a lot
| of concurrent activity is happening with the database, such as what
| occurs on an election night...
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| The report mentions that election staff had trouble with the server
| crashing and freezing on election night....
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| The report notes that with punch card machines election officials used
| to be able to determine definitively if all ballots had been counted
| in the results....
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http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/04/diebold_vote_da.html
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