dsilva wrote:

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> I am pointing out realities of a new economy
> where systems have to be web enabled today not tomorrow.
> Oracle is ready and so are others.  Total solutions.  Today
> you are fighting for survival of the old dressed as new,
> ignoring reality totally. When CEO's are offered total
> solutions for a per transaction price, you are still thinking
> on how to build a system that will handle this new economy.
> Well, you are respectfully 20 minutes too late.
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  The facts are that most businesses have what many people
consider to be "legacy" data that needs to be available (in
some form) to the users on the web.  Having that data copied
to an NT or Unix box running a web server is a way to do that,
but its not the only way, and in some cases it is not even
the "best" way.  The HP 3000 (or HP e3000 if you care) works
well as a database engine in the "new world".  I just completed
some testing a few weeks back for a customer running a small
3000 backend and a Windows NT/Cold Fusion front end.  We were
able to push approximately 300,000 (simulated) users (users,
not hits!) through this setup a day.  This was 300,000 users
hitting an Image database.  At the end of the test, nothing
was smoking or even panting hard :)  It just sat there asking
for more.  As for speed of implementation, I'm taking basically
the same front end and integrating it to a totally different
back-end (again on a 3000) next week.  What makes this possible?
One acronym "ODBC".  The 3000 doesn't have to have every bell
and whistle of every other OS, it just needs to be able to talk
with them.  For the most part, it does that today, and does it
well.
  Most business don't have to migrate off the 3000 to get
what they want/need. They either need to look a little harder to
find it on the 3000, or look at integrating the 3000 based data
with whatever it is they are looking at.  That doesn't make the
3000 obsolete, it makes it the key to the corporations ability
to quickly react to whatever the market forces for that business
are.

Respectfully
Michael L Gueterman
Easy Does It Technologies
SIGWeb Co-Chair
http://www.editcorp.com
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