Randall C. Kennedy
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Randall C. Kennedy is director of research and co-founder of Competitive Systems Analysis, an Information Technology consulting company. He was also a former Senior Analyst for Giga Information Group and writes for InfoWorld.
He is notable for determining an undocumented change to Microsoft SQL Server's default handling of which network library is used in its Net-Lib (it changed from named pipes to TCP/IP in Microsoft Data Access Components 2.6, but was only noticed and rectified in version 2.7). He also discovered some strange benchmark results when comparing performance of SQL Server on Windows NT 4 versus Windows 2000 however caused a stir when he was prevented from publishing them in the magazine Network World after Microsoft threatened legal action on him because of a term in SQL Server's clickwrap agreement.
[edit] References
- Foster, Ed (2001). "Is it OK for Microsoft and others to forbid disclosure of benchmark results?"
- Fontana, Joe (March 5, 2001). "Microsoft gets tough with independent testers". Network World.
- Kennedy, Randall C. (November 21, 2001). "It's not a bug, it's a feature". InfoWorld.
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