Re:

On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 08:39:16PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Jim C. Nasby wrote:
>
> >On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 01:57:27PM +0000, Guido Barosio wrote:
> >>Were do we finde accurate values, more updated ones?
> >>Guess we should measure current values and compare them later, in a few
> >>months after oracle  dbms war gets quiet.
> >>
> >>http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3462241
> >
> >"In our survey, 90 percent of our developers work with or deployed to
> >Windows platforms," McKendrick explained. "Windows dominates this space,
> >and a database that doesn't run on Windows or doesn't run effectively in
> >Windows would have a fairly limited reach."
> >
> >Does that strike anyone else as being *highly* skewed?
>
> Aren't most surveys, stats and benchmarks? :(  there is no such thing as
> an "unbiased result" in statistics, it will always be skewed in some way
> based on the person generating the stats ...

Oh, sure, but 90% windows seems pretty blatent to me.
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