Re: Wisconsin Circuit Court Access (WCCA) on

On 3/13/06 5:50 PM, "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov> wrote:

> The license for the commercial product contains a clause which
> prohibits disclosing benchmarks of their product without their written
> permission. (Heaven only knows why they would include such a clause.)
> My comment is not based on any formal benchmarks, but on the graphs
> produced by our monitoring of the production software under real loads,
> and on the query metrics from our middle tier software in the production
> environment. Even though it would be a huge stretch to call the
> comparison a benchmark under these conditions, this is a litigious
> society. I'm sure you understand my concern.
>
> Short of being compelled by law to open our records, I'm not
> comfortable providing any performance comparison which names the
> vendor.

Hmm.. What vendor throws such a clause into all their licensing agreements.
Sounds suspiciously like Microsoft...

I'm not a lawyer, but I believe things such as what vendors a government
entity is using is required by law to be public information.

Wes