> It appears that Google architecture is the antithesis of conventional > mainframe application achitecture in all aspects. > > http://labs.google.com/papers/googlecluster-ieee.pdf >
Yup. That's what I've been telling you guys for the last couple of years. There are other approaches out there that are becoming pretty successful. I would not want to build a banking application that way, but for "drive-by" browsing where the integrity/reproducibility of the results isn't so important, theirs is the way to go. CC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
