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| Time: 00:39 EST/05:39 GMT | News Source: E-Mail | Posted By: Jonathan Tigner | ||
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Thanks, BobSmith. I'm not sure what the official line is on these contracts but I've come to realize why the practice is popular among software vendors. A lot of the time people who perform benchmarks are familiar with one or two of the products they are testing and know how to tune those for optimal performance but not the others which leads to skewed results. I know that at least on the XML team at Microsoft we don't block people from publishing benchmarks if they come to us, we just ensure that their tests are apples-to-apples comparisons and not unfairly skewed to favor the other product(s) being tested. | ||
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