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Strategies & Market Trends : Gorilla and King Portfolio Candidates
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To: kumar who wrote (37430)1/3/2001 12:28:38 PM
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Also interestingly, in this context Sun may be more of a gorilla and less of a king. There computing architecture lends itself to high scalability across tens and even hundreds of processors -- apparently uniquely so. In e-commerce, to get the transaction rates for the high end, the current tactic is to load the entire Oracle database into virtual memory, and this forces the high-scalability requirement. So Sun may be a gorilla on the Net. Thoughts?

I think that is one of the weakest cases for Gorilla-ness that I have ever seen.

First of all, MSFT's new Windows Data Center is capable of scaling to accomodate the throughput rates of an online database.

Second of all, if one of us made such an unsubstantiated case, we would be pummeled by such words as "prosperous investing", "RTFM", "dd", etc.

Third of all, there are other ways to solve database throughput issues beside "loading the entire database into virtual memory".

Would love to hear from you DBA's on this one.
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