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To: Martin Milani who wrote (16031)	4/30/1999 5:38:00 PM
From: Stormweaver	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Hmmm, if your building 3-tier systems (client/server/server) you should be flexible enough in the design to take advantage of the CPU/storage in the middle tier. If it's done right it will improve client response time (middle tier cache/processing) and reduce load on the back-end. It also can improve uptime of the overall system if your application can function of the middle servers in case of back end problems. Also completely off topic, here's my opinion on CORBA: CORBA is a technology that you employ only when you require it since it is synchronous and has high overhead. Asynchronous message based systems such as Message Oriented Middlewares, provide a more robust solution for transaction type processing. That's why most real time financial solutions are built on top of MOM's.

To: Martin Milani who wrote (16031)	4/30/1999 5:49:00 PM
From: Claude	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

I never said lots of db servers. Just the app servers - for failover and scalability. I don't think I mentioned billions of either db or app servers so maybe you shouldn't add words to my post that are not there or maybe you should just learn to read more carefully. And why do you feel the need to write things like 4-billion dollar enterprise? Does this automatically make you right? A question for you - How are you consolidating when you are adding servers - app servers in this case? Back to my original point which you have misconstrued. Many of the high end Unix boxes in corporations today are db servers and my point is that I can lessen the load on these servers (and thus the need for higher end hardware) by improving my application's architecture within an N-Tier environment. Claude (rhymes with TOAD)