[Golden Eagle]

Any benchmarks you see were allowed by MS

Well there's certainly no shortage of them, and Oracle and Sybase have the same restriction. It's to keep open source bozos from slandering them, as you'd be apt to do if you ever got the chance I'm sure.

[antiRepublicrat]

Well there's certainly no shortage of them, and Oracle and Sybase have the same restriction.

I know. I guess being unethical is okay if everybody's doing it.

It's to keep open source bozos from slandering them

These restrictions were meant for the other enterprise competition. Open source didn't even play in the enterprise DB market when these terms were put on EULAs.