Re: informix market share

From: JEDIDIAH <jedi_at_nomad.mishnet>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:40:27 -0600
Message-ID: <1134495627_88828@spool6-east.superfeed.net>

On 2005-11-30, Serge Rielau <srielau_at_ca.ibm.com> wrote:

> Mark Townsend wrote:

>> Serge Rielau wrote:
>>

>>>
>>> *chuckle*And there always will be because SMP scales better than RAC 
>>> (more CPUs needed) 

>>
>>
>> Not necessarily - as people move of their older SMPs they can find that
>> the new CPUs in the smaller blades of their new Linux clusters are much
>> more powerful than what they had before, and that they have a lot more
>> memory, L2 cache etc. Does depend on how old the SMP is.
>>

> ..and how expensive it would be to upgrade that SMP box instead. I'm not

        Have you ever used highend SMP gear? You sound as if you never have and thus have no awareness of the relative costs involved.

> an accountant, but can't hardware be written of better than software in > the US? Just some non obvious impact thought....

        I'm guessing that you're not a Fireplane sysadmin either.

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