Re: 21 terabytes at NYNEX

In <DqBLFL.8pM_at_world.std.com> mew_at_world.std.com (Michael E Willett) writes:
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>In the April 22 WSJ article "Storage Devices Take Spotlight
>in Computer Industry," Jerry Higgins, who manages a database
>of 21 trillion bytes of data at NYNEX, says, "Computers are
>becoming a sidelight to the data warehouses."...

OK, Mike, I'll bite - what do YOU think this statement means? Surely you're not suggesting that computers are superfluous in DW? After all, why actually DO anything with the data, so long as you can just store it. SHEEESSH!

Anyway, since NYNEX can't even seem to manage as a monopoly in the fastest growing industry in the world, (not to mention the most communications-intensive city in the world) maybe they should concentrate on their core competency of building massive write-only databases.

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