Rows of NT vs 1 N-way

RE:     NEWSWire/400-05.27.98

Got this a week or so ago (Newwire/400).  Thought it was interesting.
BTW a large company in my town was running Domino on (I think)
17 NT servers (Rows of them).   They  replaced the "Rows" for a 
single N-way AS/400.  It think it had something to do with support
costs & uptime.  I'm not sure<G>.  

Hey, that reminds me,  Do you's people remember that act on TV 
with the guy with the plates on the sticks ?  He had about a bunch(17 ?)
of sticks straight up from a table and he put a dinner plate on top of 
each one(spinning it) as he put more plates on the sticks, he had to keep
running back to keep the others spinning.   He eventually hit his max, 
and his entire time was running back and forth keeping the plates spinning.
Every one laughed when they occasionally fell. 

I don't know why I keep remembering that act when hearing about "Rows
and Rows".  Hmm  Anyway I thought it  was funny.

<From Newswire/400)
OUT OF CONTEXT: ROW UPON ROW OF NT-POWERED COMPAQ MACHINES

"Why is IBM going to be happy with a Java specification that lets 
their customer freely choose not to use their platform? If pure 
Java really succeeds, all the server companies are dead, because 
Compaq can roll out its NT systems, and you can cluster them 
together so you have five running, and it costs you $20,000. And 
this thing outperforms a Sun box that's $100,000. So why would 
anyone buy Sun anymore, when they can buy row upon row of NT-
powered Compaq machines?"
-- Bill Dunlap, Microsoft Product Manager for Visual J++
Copyright 1998, NEWS/400
http://www.news400.com


 John Carr CDP
 Certified IBM Specialist  - RPG
 EdgeTech
 804-739-7689
 5921 Acorn Ridge Ct.
 Midlothian Va 23112
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