I'm really, really not disagreeing. I'm in violent agreement, actually. Yes, what I'm suggesting some people are already doing and yes, its value is heavily bounded by the application(s) architecture. (I say it again.)
However, based on my meetings with many customers -- is Asia the "real world"? :-) -- there are plenty who aren't taking advantage of this capability. Sometimes unofficial names (like "TogglePlex") are useful to capture the essence of a concept in order to help explain it better. ["UglyPlex"? Not so much. :-)] I said up front that I apologize if this is all review for certain readers here. Obviously it is for some. By the way, I can think of another example of "things everybody supposedly knows" but which really aren't widely known: enterprise batch processing, particularly concurrent (and multiple) batch and online. The batch concepts and capabilities many mainframe-expert people understand (and take for granted) are quite alien to the majority of IT staff, broadly speaking. I spend a lot of time explaining these topics, gently and patiently. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan / Asia-Pacific E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
