Re: WGE supports fragmentation and PDQ

Tambi Dude wrote: > http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/library/techarticle/dm-0604normile/ > > Fragmentation and PDQ allowed in WGE. > > With extra option for HDR, why would most of the customers need Enterprise > Edition? > > A 4CPU box can be more than enuf for many applications. IDS is not resource > demanding. After all 50K per cpu vs. 10K per cpu (17K with HDR) is a huge > difference. I was just commenting on this to a colleague here. He said: ... So WGE can not be installed on a box with more than 4 cpu. (my note: 2 cpus for IDS 7 & 9, 4 cpus for 10.xx) no support for LPAR etc. WGE supports fragmentation. Wow!!!, that means a table can grow as big as possible. I said: No limit on the data, right. The idea was that your DB could grow until your business was big enough to warrant buying IDS Enterprise Edition so allowing fragmentation leads into that while allowing customers to delay the decision until the hardware just can't handle it anymore. I'll add here: Providing just what the customer needs and no more but providing a painless path to full IDS Enterprise Edition performance when needed. What a unique and powerful selling tool! Art S. Kagel