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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (85019)12/12/1998 1:28:00 PM
From: rudedog  Read Replies (1) of 176388
 
Michelle -
Apratim has a good point about internet support architectures if we think about e-commerce, which will probably drive a lot of volume in this space. Tandem has been selling a lot of machines into this space in the last 6 months, as has Sun - there are currently reasons to have a big scalable single machine or a tightly linked cluster for this part of the work.

It is relatively easy to take general web service and disperse it - but SAP also did this by using a queueing server on the front end of an application farm a la R3 architecture. But there is also a central datastore which maintains persistent state in an R3 system, and the bigger that box is, the better the whole system performs. Current e-commerce architectures seem to be evolving to that same model.
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