Glenn Cole wrote:
>
> c|net's NEWS.COM has more on SuperDome, at
>
>    http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-2757613.html
>
> One interesting item:
>
>    HP is changing payment plans so that customers' payments go up or down
>    depending on how much of the machine's computing capacity is being used.
>    Previously, HP only offered the option to buy a server with unused
>    processors, paying only when a customer needed to fire them up.
>

Actually, this news is what I found most impressive.  Tbe box is
ok (but see below), but the payment model is revolutionary.  My
hat's off to HP.

> Still, the machine sounds too darned complex.  As if sysadmin of HP-UX
> was not complex enough already.  (Jeff?  Richard?)
>

You see, the good thing about superdome is that you can run lots of
little hpux boxes inside, so you can upgrade one while the other
hosts your application... It's a hardware solution to the problem of
robustness and manageability in the operating system, application
and databases.  (Customer to ASP vendor, "You want to do what! You
are NOT going to run my application on a box with another's - what
if their app crashes the box"...)

Actually, I'm glad MPE doesn't work on it - MPE doesn't need this
kind of hardware solution and Image/sql applications don't need this
kind of performance to run well.


> --Glenn

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