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To: Michael Olin who wrote (8889)	11/19/1998 5:53:00 PM
From: syborg	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 19080

Proporietary connectivity would be a kiss of death I agree and would not expect it. When we talk about the database machine I am assuming it would work for large volumes of data. In such a case we need to worry about multiple processors and the ability of the "appliance" to leverage them effectively. Bottom line, imagine the challenges a development team would face given a hunk of hardware put in front of them and told make it into a database appliance. Now assume that they succeed and a different machine is put in front of them using the next generation of technology doubling the performance from the previous hardware. Oh yeah... along with performance increases comes a new hardware architecture to consider. There a just so many variables in the appliance equation. syborg