On 8/28/06, James Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ... > For some more perspective, our Oracle environment lives on a Sun E20K > (http://www.sun.com/servers/highend/sunfire_e20k/index.xml) which, > according to that link, start at US$452000 ish.
Dude, I got like 6 of those. One for email, one for itunes, the other four form a "flock", to power a milllion mini db instances... Dang. [roughly] A 1/2 mil of hardware... This is why I make use of as many Oracle features as I can - to hell > with portability, we paid for it so I'm using it. Yeah, that's cool. I would too. Sorry if I came off all rebel like, Teddy. I didn't mean to "push" the OS stuff. More a hypothetical as, like, so what if you've got the source, if you cannot work with it? Although... you /would/ have the source.... LOL ;) Plus, Big O and Java seem pretty tight, so CF is a natural, neh? Really I'm just trying to apply some of the stuff I've read, which seems pretty straight forward conceptually, but "in real life" is proving harder to visualize. Without the aid of things like ORMs, or other, pluggable-ish technology, I don't see how it's possible. But we don't run our apps on hypothetical computers- hardware and such /does/ constrain us. I'd be interested to hear what kinds of things you're utilizing that heavy metal for, James. Are you doing standard PL/SQL stuff that is plain old Oracle centric, or things that are only useful when you've got that level of power behind them? I'm spacing some of my "wow, that's how hotmail does it?!?"-type memories. And probably asking from lack thereof. :-) Again, I too have really enjoyed this thread, and didn't mean to put any emotional spin on it. Injecting ideas was more my aim, but I'm not a stellar convey-er-of-whatever-it-is-through-typing. Too emotional, come off as being personal vs. logical... yeesh! :-) Part of it is probably related to the digital divide, and trying to stand on both sides of it. Squish like grape, neh? |] I dig the conversation, sorry I wandered off there. I'm gonna bow out a bit and try to direct some of this energy elsewhere. Try. :-P Ah yeah... good stuff. 128 terabytes, you say... hrm... /me looks at his DVD collection... one record! LOL. :den ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:251342 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
