Thinking Green.. yeah I know ... ironic... :-)
Yes its ironic that Gumby is thinking green. (The truth is that the nickname of Gumby has nothing to do with the claymation figure but thats beside the point...) On a serious note, green sells. Doing more with less. IDS is one of the more efficient engines out there. There is that win from two years ago (the gaming company that reduced their server count to *10%* by switching to IDS over SQL Server). IDS is better suited towards the newer generation of CPUs. (Multi threaded / multi core) processors. So why doesn't IBM promote IDS as a "green alternative"? Ok, I know the answer to it, I'm just hoping that Jerry and/or Kathy and/or Alyse et al would put down the doughnut and coffee and work on this idea. Benchmarks are important too. There's IBM's cell datablade that isn't being pushed. And of course Sun Micro has their Rock chips coming out this next year. Somehow I don't think a TPC/C or TPC/E on either platform would draw a comparison to DB2 since AFAIK, DB2 hasn't been ported to either platform yet. ;-) I'd pick on Oracle, but as Mark pointed out, there are some drawbacks to Oracle's core design that make it less efficient than IDS in terms of the newer architecture and virtualization. This isn't a dig on Oracle. After all they are the 900lb Gorilla. (They really need to go on a diet :^ ) So anyone else have some "green" reference stories that they can pony up to IBM? -G
Ian Michael Gumby wrote: > Yes its ironic that Gumby is thinking green. (The truth is that the > nickname of Gumby has nothing to do with the claymation figure but > thats beside the point...) > > On a serious note, green sells. > > Doing more with less. > > IDS is one of the more efficient engines out there. There is that win > from two years ago (the gaming company that reduced their server count > to *10%* by switching to IDS over SQL Server). > > IDS is better suited towards the newer generation of CPUs. (Multi > threaded / multi core) processors. > > So why doesn't IBM promote IDS as a "green alternative"? > > Ok, I know the answer to it, I'm just hoping that Jerry and/or Kathy > and/or Alyse et al would put down the doughnut and coffee and work on > this idea. If there's still anybody in IBM who has the patience to talk to you, call them up and ask them about this quarter's sales plays. The donut was put down ages ago. Still, you keep banging on, at least it keeps you from doing something really dangerous, like work. -- Cheers, Obnoxio The Clown http://obotheclown.blogspot.com
Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > If there's still anybody in IBM who has the patience to talk to you, > call them up and ask them about this quarter's sales plays. The donut > was put down ages ago. > doughnut not donut. > Still, you keep banging on, at least it keeps you from doing something > really dangerous, like work. > Indians do the work now, Americans watch. *<8o) -- Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. Terry Pratchett
InDeep wrote: > Obnoxio The Clown wrote: >> If there's still anybody in IBM who has the patience to talk to you, >> call them up and ask them about this quarter's sales plays. The donut >> was put down ages ago. >> > > doughnut not donut. When in Parsippany ... -- Cheers, Obnoxio The Clown http://obotheclown.blogspot.com
> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:01:16 -0700 > From: indeep@indeep.com > Subject: Re: Thinking Green.. yeah I know ... ironic... :-) > To: informix-list@iiug.org > > Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > > If there's still anybody in IBM who has the patience to talk to you, > > call them up and ask them about this quarter's sales plays. The donut > > was put down ages ago. > > > > doughnut not donut. > > > > Still, you keep banging on, at least it keeps you from doing something > > really dangerous, like work. > > > > > Indians do the work now, Americans watch. > Oh you're gonna burn in hell for that one! Why you such a hater? :-P I think we're starting to see a backlash where the cheapest hourly solution provider doesn't necessarily mean the most cost effective solution provider. _________________________________________________________________ Stay organized with simple drag and drop from Windows Live Hotmail. http://windowslive.com/Explore/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_102008