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And what alternative platform are you going to get acceptable
performance from?  Most PC-based databases barely handle a single query
on a file of that size.  Are you thinking of running this on
Windows?!?!?!  Perhaps an industrial-strength Unix database, but that's
not going to be any cheaper.

Also, I don't understand the high price of the iSeries solution.  I can
do searches on millions of records on my little model 270.  Why do you
think you need $1.5M dollars worth of hardware?  Are you saying a model
870 with 5 processors and 7700 CPW isn't enough????  That processor is a
base price under $300K.  Load up disk and memory, and you might break
$500K.  And you can upgrade to 11500 CPW for another $100K.

I think you might want to revisit your figures.
 
Joe

> From: Tom
> 
> Our problem is performance; we're having scores of simultaneous
searches
> on
> 10s of millions of db records.  An upgrade to an iSeries system
capable of
> handling our projected needs over the next 3 years (hundres of
> simultaneous
> searches on 100s of millions of records) will cost at about $500K,
another
> $1M+ after that.  My gawd.


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