Christian Lheureux <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>  > Why has it been concluded by HP that HPe3000 users have no
>>  need for more
>>  speed?
>
>That's all about marketing. Call it price/performance, pricing points,
>etc... It all gets down to marketing.
>
>>  What justification could there possibly be for this
>>  difference in
>  > strategy?
>
>I can see at least one, and it's called DBMS. It's well-known that
>TurboImage is especially efficient, perhaps the most efficient DBMS you can
>dream of. It runs on MPE, period. What do we have on Unix ? Oracle, Sybase,
>Ingres Informix, all rDBMSs. If you compare TurboImage to the most efficient
>rDBMS of the universe, you're stuck with a 4:1 (approx.) performance gap.
>Hence the "justification" for software crippling.

Now I get it: TurboIMAGE is causing HP untold grief and customer "issues".

Feeling guilty because, as I write this, I continue to invest my time
and attention into making TurboIMAGE even more of a win-win proposition
for hp3000 users, I remain

Baffled by "marketing",

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