RE: subject: iSeries Legends

> From: Walden H. Leverich III
>
> As for "taking the Belt", what would you require to take the
> belt? The only
> published numbers I'm aware of are the TPC-C and -W numbers, and Windows
> looks good there.

"Looks good".  But it doesn't win.  Besides, those are just statistics.
Kind of like comparing 0-60 speed on funny cars.  Completely useless.  I
want real numbers of a company in production for a year or more, with uptime
and support costs.  Anything less is statistics.


> Oh, and the Order detail table had 17,279,759,341 rows (17 Billion) with a
> row size of 54 bytes, or a table size of 933,107,004,414 (933TB) for that
> table alone. No, the 58TB is _not_ offline storage, it's database storage.

Cool.  Was this in production?  How may users?  What was the access time for
an order?  How many CPUs on the network?  How long did it take to back up?
Better yet, how long to restore?  How many people supported the system?
How much did the hardware cost?  The software?  The electricity?  The A/C?
How big a room housed this system?  How many drives?  How many arms?  How
many tape drives?  MTBF?  Uptime percentage?

How many systems with this capacity in production?

Joe