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To: rudedog who wrote (24146)12/6/1999 9:07:00 PM
From: Thomas Mercer-Hursh  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 64865
 
2 of the DELL boxes are roughly equivalent

Depends on what you are trying to do. Using this logic, every mainframe in the world would have long since been replaced by an array of PCs, but clearly that hasn't happened.

True, part of the reason for this need for big iron is because most people don't know how to write and don't have the tools for developing distributed applications. The one notable on the tools front is Forte, a division of Sun.



To: rudedog who wrote (24146)12/6/1999 9:18:00 PM
From: Charles Tutt  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 64865
 
What I see when I visit the first URL you cite is that Sun is at the top of those machines actually available/shipping. When I visit your second URL, I see that Dell got its numbers using Microsoft SQL, and also isn't yet available. That's a far different situation from using Oracle and already shipping. This industry tends to proceed by "leapfrogging," and six months is an eternity.

JMHO.


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