{"id":520,"date":"2006-02-24T12:14:49","date_gmt":"2006-02-24T19:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp\/?p=520"},"modified":"2006-02-24T12:14:49","modified_gmt":"2006-02-24T19:14:49","slug":"microsoft-competitors-take-note-you-can-benchmark-vs-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/microsoft-competitors-take-note-you-can-benchmark-vs-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft competitors take note: You Can Benchmark vs Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><DIV>I had not realised that the <A href=\"http:\/\/weblog.infoworld.com\/foster\/2004\/12\/14.html#a193\">status of Microsoft policy with respect to benchmarking<\/A> had changed, owing to antitrust issues.<\/DIV><DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV>Does this mean we can finally see some decent Java versus .NET benchmarks? Probably not&#8230;<\/DIV><DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV>It would be great if Microsoft would lift the restriction on customers as well now, wouldn&#8217;t it <A href=\"http:\/\/scobleizer.wordpress.com\/\">Scoble<\/A>?<\/DIV><DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV>So if the benchmark restriction has been lifted, and we&#8217;re not seeing any activity yet, does that mean that Microsoft&#8217;s competitors don&#8217;t have something to prove? I think they do. <\/DIV><DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV>System performance is more important than ever. With&nbsp;software as a&nbsp;service,&nbsp;<A href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/sogrady\/archives\/001324.html\">Speed is a Feature Not a Function<\/A>. <\/DIV><DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV>As the boundaries between servers and clients blur, through AJAX and mashup APIs,&nbsp;the need for heavy server performance increases.&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV>On the enterprise side I am certainly a benchmark value skeptic, but rough comparisons are better than no comparisons.<\/DIV><DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had not realised that the status of Microsoft policy with respect to benchmarking had changed, owing to antitrust issues.&nbsp;Does this mean we can finally see some decent Java versus .NET benchmarks? Probably not&#8230;&nbsp;It would be great if Microsoft would lift the restriction on customers as well now, wouldn&#8217;t it Scoble?&nbsp;So if the benchmark restriction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-8o","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}