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To: John Koligman who wrote (6169)	10/1/1997 12:51:00 PM
From: Spots	of 97611

True, weather's not doable YET on an NT system. But taking my earlier example (stock exchanges), that's a lot of data, a lot of I/O, and a lot of parallelism. This technology CAN be brought to bear on things like weather calculations. People like Tandem and Oracle and HP have instead brought these kinds of systems to bear on transaction processing against databases. But now the technology base is broadening rapidly to DSS and data mining. A lot of similarity between the computational requirements of data mining and weather patterns. These are massively parallel systems working against a single gigantic database image we're talking about here. More profitable than selling systems for weather analysis. Every "mainframe" application is technologically feasible on existing parallel, scalable, near-commodity architectures. The economics of it will dominate eventually. IMHO, Cpq has the right outlook and marketplace image to make it happen sooner rather than later (not to mention the financial muscle). With the Tandem purchase they have the technology and the experience competing with mainframes directly.

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