Re: No future for DB2

Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > DA Morgan said: > >>Lets say the CFO of the firm has a choice of maintaining big iron >>with attendant costs in infrastructure including power conditioning, >>air conditioning, etc. or can build a mainframe from 2 proc or 4 proc >>commodity hardware for a fraction of the cost and get the same >>computing power at a fraction of the cost. Look at the number of >>super computers now build from commodity hardware for example. > > > While I don't want to argue with your reasoning, I would like to point out > that the perception of mainframes being monstrous finicky environments > compared to commodity hardware is not entirely justified. I have a client > who has migrated to Wintel / blade environment with much less computing > horsepower than the average mainframe, and they have huge issues with air > conditioning and power conditioning for their commodity-based solution. > There is, for example, a finite limit to the number of blades they can > deploy in their computing room. If they had not opted for a commodity > solution, they could probably get close to two orders of magnitude more > computing horsepower into the same environment. > > YAMMV, etc. If you hadn't said Wintel and blade I'd have been interested. They obviously are hard of thinking so their problems are no surprise. In fact anyone buying blades now needs their cranium examined. There is no blade standard and the vendors have been changing them about as fast as some people change their socks. Buy today and you will have obsolecense tomorrow: Pretty much guaranteed. -- Daniel A. Morgan http://www.psoug.org damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)