Re: Out of Box Experience for Cheetah.
"Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@serendipita.com> wrote in message news:mailman.442.1174149655.10648.informix-list@iiug.org... >> I don't disagree with you. And I'm talking myself out of a job to a certain extent. But I'm constantly amazed at the number of sites I attend that still run with 200 buffers ... ... or 1 aio vp! > A database system like IDS is a very complex system. Why is there > the expectation that such systems should work optimally in all sorts > of disparate scenarios? > > Nobody expects that the average passenger can fly a Boing 767 in a > safe way. There's tangible hardware, and generally wide acceptance > that "touching earth the wrong way" is a disaster. Did you know that IBM has invented "autonomic" computing? It's been put into their DB2 range of databases. You never have to do anything to it: it tunes and fixes itself.
Can I interest you in a small bridge that has currently come up for sale? It's located in Brooklyn. j. -----Original Message----- From: informix-list-bounces@iiug.org [mailto:informix-list-bounces@iiug.org]On Behalf Of Captain Pedantic Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2007 7:44 PM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: Out of Box Experience for Cheetah. "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@serendipita.com> wrote in message news:mailman.442.1174149655.10648.informix-list@iiug.org... >> I don't disagree with you. And I'm talking myself out of a job to a certain extent. But I'm constantly amazed at the number of sites I attend that still run with 200 buffers ... ... or 1 aio vp! > A database system like IDS is a very complex system. Why is there > the expectation that such systems should work optimally in all sorts > of disparate scenarios? > > Nobody expects that the average passenger can fly a Boing 767 in a > safe way. There's tangible hardware, and generally wide acceptance > that "touching earth the wrong way" is a disaster. Did you know that IBM has invented "autonomic" computing? It's been put into their DB2 range of databases. You never have to do anything to it: it tunes and fixes itself. _______________________________________________ Informix-list mailing list Informix-list@iiug.org http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list
Captain Pedantic said: > it > tunes and fixes itself. ...to standards that IBM reckon are acceptable. -- Bye now, Obnoxio "I'm astonished anyone pays real money for this crap." -- Cosmo -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by OpenProtect(http://www.openprotect.com), and is believed to be clean.
informix-list-bounces@iiug.org wrote on 18.03.2007 01:43:34: > "Obnoxio The Clown" <obnoxio@serendipita.com> wrote in message > news:mailman.442.1174149655.10648.informix-list@iiug.org... > > >> I don't disagree with you. And I'm talking myself out of a job to a > certain extent. But I'm constantly amazed at the number of sites I attend > that still run with 200 buffers ... > > ... or 1 aio vp! > > > A database system like IDS is a very complex system. Why is there > > the expectation that such systems should work optimally in all sorts > > of disparate scenarios? > > > > Nobody expects that the average passenger can fly a Boing 767 in a > > safe way. There's tangible hardware, and generally wide acceptance > > that "touching earth the wrong way" is a disaster. > > Did you know that IBM has invented "autonomic" computing? It's been put > into their DB2 range of databases. You never have to do anything to it: it > tunes and fixes itself. I know. :) And I'm also amazed at how many people (whose job I assume is to a considerable extent "DB-Admin") basically request that their job be made "less necessary". OTC already noted that ... :) (I'm deliberately not saying redundant as there may always be a small percentage of DB-Admin work left over to be done by humans.) Maybe in America things are moving somewhat slower, but here in Europe, efficiency (aka productivity) is very big since many years (not just during the last few years when America started to marvel at the "jobless recovery"). Here, a job is gone for good before you know it was your job, if someone finds out that your job can be done by a machine ... As a developer I can still try to keep ahead of the tide by implementing all these autonomic things ... until some software comes around and takes over the development task, that is. I can hope to have enough money to go into retirement by that time, or start looking for a new job early enough. :) Cheers, Martin > > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list -- Martin Fuerderer IBM Informix Development Munich, Germany Information Management Notes: Martin Fuerderer/Germany/IBM@IBMDE Sorry, but the following text is now required by German law: IBM Deutschland GmbH Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Hans Ulrich Maerki Geschäftsführung: Martin Jetter (Vorsitzender), Rudolf Bauer, Christian Diedrich, Christoph Grandpierre, Matthias Hartmann, Andreas Kerstan Sitz der Gesellschaft: Stuttgart Registergericht: Amtsgericht Stuttgart, HRB 14562 WEEE-Reg.-Nr. DE 99369940