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To: BGR who wrote (61878)6/9/1999 3:10:00 PM
From: Skeeter Bug  Respond to of 132070
 
>>But I posit that the coming will be an age of mega servers and performance will be very important for VLDBs for example<<

each mega server will serve how many people? what does this multiple user format do to units sold?



To: BGR who wrote (61878)6/9/1999 3:17:00 PM
From: Michael Bakunin  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 132070
 
Didn't say it would be tomorrow. I added some links to my post; I think one fellow from HP posits that it'll happen in ten years, though. In re bandwidth and megaservers, you know I agree with you up to a point, but I don't think we need to rehash this one again. -mb