Re: Price Increases !!!!! Abandonment rate

[John P Carr <jpcarr@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Naw.  A cardboard Nefinity or RS/6000 server, or perhaps videos of "Deep 
>Blue" defeating Kasparov or one of the myriad stories about "Blue Gene" 
>appearing on national media of late...
>Regards!
>Dean Asmussen

BTW,   There is a forum discussing this very thing.   It would be neat if
some of us could participate.
John Carr

http://infoworld.inclusion.net/forums/topics.html?igid=G86638&mid=M9655

Scalability scenarios


IBM this week unveiled the state of the art in high-end computing with its 
Blue Gene machine. Obviously, nobody's going to be buying one of 
those to run their Web site, but if history repeats itself, this technology 
will make its way into corporate systems in the not-so-distant future. 

The issue for these high-end systems, particularly parallel-processing 
servers, is the amount of customization that needs to be done. 

We've heard of many well-publicized outages from Etrade to Schwab, 
which blamed the back end for their problems. In your e-business, 
are off-the-shelf servers and software cutting it? Will the base 
technology of Blue Gene make its way into your data center any day? 

How much does server technology need to be customized to meet 
your e-business scalability demands? 


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