Just about the only possible viable future for the HP e3000 is to
stake out the middle ground for business oriented database servers that
do Apache, Java and all the necessary up-to-date "stuff", but don't
have the cost factor of Oracle.  SQL-Server on win2000 is in this camp,
as are some IBM solutions.  If the e3000 can win (and keep) a reasonable
share of application vendors in this market, then it has a chance for
continued viability.  MPE/iX offers significant cost savings in
administration, too.

Richard

"Johnson, Tracy" wrote:
>
> The high cost of Oracle mentioned on slashdot
> with a ton of replies.
>
> Too bad they don't know about our little
> secret called Turbo/IMAGE...
>
> Are Expensive RDBM Systems Worth The Money?
> from the it-really-depends-on-the-task dept.
> posted by Cliff on Monday March 05, @10:42PM (programming)
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/03/04/0842229
>
> Tracy Johnson
> MSI Schaevitz Sensors

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