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To: Neal Bernard who wrote (1776)	7/29/1997 12:14:00 AM
From: Rob Young	of 3276

Neal, See: techstocks.com for a reference to that same article. Short term effects? None. Galaxies is probably 9-12 months away. > Is DEC the only company working on this [new paradigm]? Yes. For a number of very technical reasons OpenVMS is the only OS that can do Galaxies (for now). Why? Basically, the Distributed Lock Manager and all that entails MUST be significantly ingrained into the OS (not just layered onto as many other so-called clusters) for Galaxies to come about. What does it mean in the near term (i.e. mid-1998 or so)? Galaxies will be taking a significant chunk of Data warehousing, decision support, etc. for those serious about scalability. Galaxies will scale like nothing we have seen so far and will allow real-time resource sharing of CPU, memory, etc. significant error failure improvement/prevention etc. etc. etc. Read that article again, it is more than clustering, it is totally new... the next step BEYOND clustering. Galaxies is out of this world!!! Rob

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