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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (52594)	11/2/2000 11:21:31 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (3) of 74651

Charles - the whole point of scale-out versus scale-up is that the technology developed for volume machines is always way cheaper than the more exotic technology for big boxes, and so the scale-out solution will always tear up the big box on a cost basis. There are indeed problems that don't partition well - and a whole class of problem which is the ease of taking an app designed for a single image environment and simply putting it on a bigger box for headroom. But for new applications, there are few today (on a percentage basis) which can not easily be partitioned, and in that scenario, the big box has no advantage, it just costs more to get the same job done. Pretty much the whole argument for a big box starts to break down as soon as you partition. In real-world situations, the server of choice for a distributed system is not an 8-way but a 1 or 2 processor machine. Same economic arguments about volume and exotic technology apply.

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