Re: Database Servers: Hardware is america, software is bangladesh!

Al Dev,

I haven't a clue where your little tirade is coming from. I have been programming, administering databases and systems, and generally knocking around data centres for over 10 years. In all that time about 90% of the systems I've worked on have been made by multinational companies quoted on the American stock exchanges, but it has been a rarity to find any equipment made in the US, with the sole exception of the once powerful IBM.

Moreover, the one American hardware manufacturer I worked for so far sourced chips and critical boards from Fujitsu plants in Japan, and less complex components from plants in Singapore, Taiwan, Germany and Ireland, to name but a few countries it dealt with. America has the dollar, 96% of the world's population do not live in the US, and a good slice of the American dollar doesn't either. A multinational's product is not automatically developed or made in the US just because the corporate stocks are qouted on the NYSE or NASDAQ. In point of fact I know of two Irish owned multinational companies which are quoted on those even though the controlling stock is held by Irish residents.

Face it man, being the only superpower left over from the Cold War does not make your country centre of the Universe, even if it is a nice place to visit.

John
Al Dev wrote in message <34BFBC72.37A7_at_hotmail.com>...
>Know that the hardware is doing bulk of the work (99%) and software
>is insignificant. Anyone with a pc can create a database like
>oracle, sybase, informix, ms-sqlserver. Expect a 10,000 MHZ cpu
>with 12 gig cache in year 2012AD! Hardware technology is advancing
>very fast. IBM recently announced breakthru in hard disk storage which
>implies disk storage capacity will be zooming in coming years.
>Storage will be in the range of hundreds of gigabytes on single disk!!
>
>Every country in this world (including Bangladesh/India/Pakistan) can
> write excellent quality software but not all the countries can
> manufacture hardware!
>
>Do you know Internet is the world's largest software company!
>The sun will never set on "Internet Empire". Around the clock 24 hours
>a day someone is on the internet.
>Internet also is a information "Power House" for this world. You name it
>the
>info is there - whether it is music, birds, paintings, nature, software,
>operating systems, databases.....etc..
>In year 1998 the internet growth world-wide will be 10 times that
>of the growth in year 1997!
>
>Check out the database revolution at this site. Are your losing
>lots of money in taxes - sales tax, income tax, medicare taxes,
>so on ... read "Chapter 34 Economic and Business Aspects"
>If you are cut-off internet than you are missing this key
> revolution world-wide.
>
>Database Howto Version 4.0 document is located at -
>
> http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Database-HOWTO.html
>
>Also you can find this document at the following mirrors sites -
>
> http://www.caldera.com/LDP/HOWTO/Database-HOWTO.html
> http://www.WGS.com/LDP/HOWTO/Database-HOWTO.html
> http://www.cc.gatech.edu/linux/LDP/HOWTO/Database-HOWTO.html
> http://www.redhat.com/linux-info/ldp/HOWTO/Database-HOWTO.html
>
>Other mirror sites near you (network-address-wise) can be found at
> http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/hmirrors.html
>select a site and go to directory /LDP/HOWTO/Database-HOWTO.html
>
>This document is published in 10 different formats namely - DVI,
>Postscript, Latex, LyX, GNU-info, HTML, RTF(Rich Text Format),
>Plain-text, Unix man pages and SGML.
>
>You can get this HOWTO document as a single file tar ball in
>HTML, DVI, Postscript or SGML formats from -
> ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/
>Plain text format is in: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO
>
>CAUTION: The document is large, total number of pages printed will
>be 212 pages (postscript version).
>
>Translations to other languages like French, German, Spanish,
>Chinese, Japanese are in
> ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO Any help from you to
>translate to other languages is welcome.
>
>The document is written using a tool called "SGML tool" which can
>be got from - http://www.xs4all.nl/~cg/sgmltools/
>Compiling the source you will get the following commands like
>
> sgml2html databasehowto.sgml (to generate html file)
> sgml2rtf databasehowto.sgml (to generate RTF file)
> sgml2latex databasehowto.sgml (to generate latex file) etc..
Received on Sat Jan 17 1998 - 00:00:00 CET