Re: No future for DB2

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. -- Bye now, Obnoxio "C'est pas parce qu'on n'a rien ' dire qu'il faut fermer sa gueule" - Coluche A smile is a gift that is free to the giver and precious to the recipient. But giving someone the finger is free too, and I find it more personal and sincere. sending to informix-list