Thanks for the other information. I had hearsay on performance, but with no direct experience or written metrics, I didn’t want to state anything.

I do appreciate sharing where Mark Logic beat X-Hive. That helps add credence to the post.

First of all, we don’t think of Mark Logic as the enemy. In fact, we hardly think of Mark Logic at all. We’re too busy building good software.

I report directly to Jeroen van Rotterdam, who you mentioned gave the presentation, so I know him fairly well. I asked him about this “enemy” story, and he said he hardly ever mentions Mark Logic.

This matches my personal experience. I have only once heard him talk about Mark Logic, and that was during the time that EMC was contemplating buying X-Hive. The other company they had in mind was… Mark Logic!

At the time of the acquisition (early to mid last year), EMC did a very detailed and thorough analysis of the two products and companies. They found that X-Hive/DB was faster on many benchmark tests, while Mark Logic was faster on only a couple of tests, most notably on some full text search test. (But we’ll address that shortly, see below So for Mark Logic to be “staying ahead of the performance curve” would mean they first have to *get* ahead.

Now that X-Hive is part of the EMC family, we’re getting the resources that a big company can afford. So, even though we obviously need to spend resources on integrating X-Hive/DB into Documentum, we’re actually more than compensating for that by expanding the DB team. So if I were Dave, I wouldn’t be happy at all