Network World - Microsoft gets tough with independent testers . Heavy-handed tactics, licensing restrictions highlight debate over software testing. Kennedy, research director for Competitive Systems Analysis, made the mistake of using benchmark testing to compare the operating systems running SQL Server without first getting written permission from Microsoft to discuss the results, which Microsoft has forced him to suppress. Microsoft, and countless other vendors with the same restriction, are enforcing it while debate rages as to whether the restriction protects consumers from bad data or protect vendors from bad test results. All rights reserved.
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