Re: Informix on RAID-5

Michael E Willett (mew@world.std.com) wrote: : >such malarkey, supposedly a foolproof way to protect your data by striping : >it acorss multiple machines. They had lots of pretty Powerpoint slides : >showing how their products made this possible. There was also a : >very small asterisk on the drawing that led to a footnote: : > * software to be developed. : I believe Mr. Lumbley may be correct in this particular case. I am not : aware that this product has been actually released or officially announced. : Most large Fortune 100 companies do expect their computer vendors to make : strategic presentations on future products, showing where they are : going. : >The RAID 7folks point to relationships with a lot of the big vendors. : >Take it with a grain of salt. Check them out with users, if you can. : That's a good approach and makes a lot of sense. Potential users <snip> Doncha just hate it when you post a semi-flame and the target replies with a well-reasoned, cool, intelligent, non-SPAMMING response? Thanks, Mike, for lowering the SOF (snake oil factor) ;) -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Lumbley(jlumbley@netcom.com) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------