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Lukas Beeler wrote:
Why not? They're web applications, just like QU2 is. They show that it
is possible to make a quick and snappy web interface (even over WAN) and
that IBM is just too lazy to do this with QU2.
And a mail client is just a fancy way to access a database which stores
mails.
Just a hunch, but I suspect that Google isn't serving web pages from
a general purpose computing platform. I'd guess that whatever they
use is pretty strictly architected to do little more than index and
serve pages efficiently. And I'd guess that they're not running much
more than indexing and serving. And I _know_ that they serve pages
from a bunch of systems, not just a single PC (or whatever, not even
just a single System i.)
Now, if you were to start a bunch of users running interactive
telnet jobs within a Google appliance/server, maybe _those_ jobs
wouldn't give comparable performance to System i. How do you want
your System i tuned?
And maybe if a bunch of users had comparable iSeries Access
connections, possibly for ODBC access and possibly other
connections, while the Google web serving is going on and while a
bunch of telnet jobs are running interactive applications, maybe
those jobs wouldn't give comparable performance to System i.
And maybe if there were some batch jobs running to handle generating
this week's payroll or accounts payable, while ODBC was serving
data, while web serving was active, while telnet jobs were running
interactive apps, maybe those jobs wouldn't give comparable
performance to System i.
In short, I simply cannot see the point in making the original
comparison. Even Windows servers can often serve data faster than
many System is; but not so much when a number of users actually
logon to that server itself and start running their own interactive
work (as if).
Tom Liotta
I had high expectations for QU2 - I expected IBM to set an example on
how a new generation System i application should look, and serve as a
leading example for ISVs. Wasn't the case.
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It is most certainly not snappy or responsive like e.G. Google Mail,
Google Reader, Microsoft Outlook Web Access 2007, etc. pp. But one
could
probably work with it without going completely insane.
Why compare page load time to applications that have nothing to do with
data analysis?
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