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This reminds me of the old performance ads of Oracle where they would show you how everything ran better on Oracle. They used to put those ads at airports, business lounges and the back cover of newspapers and magazines read by non-technical executives like the FT and Economist.

Everyone technical knew they would game every environment to come out with superior results. I suppose it worked. As the top executives buy big system software and ignore the IT crowd who could easily point out the flaws in the methodology of the"studies".

Breakdown of one of those example ads:

https://db2news.wordpress.com/2011/06/08/a-closer-examinatio...

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