RE: Is there an midrange Data Warehouse forum or, if not...

I'm going to guess the market is limited. Not non-existant but limited.

We do and have been running a large DW on what is currently an i5.
Wouldn't change it for the world. I say large but I should say large
for us. I would assume that the small DW and large DW environments are
pretty strong into Wintel and Unix servers. We use the SPSS/Showcase
family of products.

FYI - the i5 is one of the leading benchmarks for the SAP BI performance
benchmark.

It would be nice to get more feedback from others on IBM i based ETL's,
etc. but I'm not sure if there is enough activity.

Michael Crump

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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dave Odom
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 5:13 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Is there an midrange Data Warehouse forum or, if not...

David Gibbs,

I fully agree. If there are only a handful of people either doing or
interested in doing Data Warehouses, Data Marts and/or Operational Data
Stores (ODS) on the i5 then there is not enough to warrant a special
forum.

I know there are plenty of the above being built on the major DB2s and
ORACLE, etc. so I thought maybe the i5 arena was doing the same; maybe
I'm wrong. Regardless, if there are folks doing one or more of
DW/DM/ODS, and since I've done this on other platforms and am now
working on one on an i5 I'm curious to see what others are doing and
will help where I can.

Thanks,

Dave