DevDan Luuover 12 years ago
Oracle tried to fire professor over database benchmark
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In 1983, University of Wisconsin researchers Dina Bitton, David DeWitt, and Carolyn Turbyfill created a database benchmarking framework. Oracle's performance was unusually poor. Larry Ellison reportedly tried to have DeWitt fired, then banned Oracle from hiring Wisconsin grads and added a EULA clause forbidding benchmark publication.
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