James, James,
You sound like a an NT man... "big proprietary iron", "fault tolerant", "mainframe"... Again you speak without thinking.
First all computer vendors build in value added pieces of architecture
and software
to differentiate themselves, and to cater to a certain market segment.
You want to call it proprietary, I don't think so. I can take an
Oracle application and run it on about any Unix system in the world
with minimum to no changes. Fault tolerant? Again you show your
knowledge of the industry. Big difference between fault tolerant and
highly available. Check the price between a Stratus or Tandem and
a Sun, HP, or other Unix Highly Available solution. And finally main frame. The price and performance difference between a 3090 and
a Sun E10000 is quite substantial. The E10k has it beat on both counts. And talk about proprietary,
won't even go there, not necessary for those that understand the
difference between MVS and Unix. As well, why have a mainframe to
do NFS. And for that matter why big iron Unix to do NFS. Those
companies that run on email and depend on NFS for mounting home
directories don't mind spending $70k for a solution that gives
99.8% availability. You want fault tolerant.... times that number
by a factor of 15 or more.
Again what would you propose as an alternative solution? An NT
cluster? You'd spend 70k and get 95% availability at best.
think man think,,
MG |
