On Sat, 21 Jul 2007 12:00:28 +0000, Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Could that be because it's irrelevant? > >There's more to a transaction than the processor speed, regardless of the platform.
And THAT, friends, is the jist of the entire discussion. And it's a point that more and more customers are realizing. As Timothy pointed out in a posting just a bit ago, the clock rate is slower. Whoop de freakin' do. There is far, far more to how much work a computer system can do (note: I avoid the word "processor" - it's all about the whole system) than the speed of the chip. I have this discussion with customers all the time, and it doesn't take a very long discussion for them to realize that "processor speed" and "system performance" and "system capacity" are distinctively different concepts that are only remotely related. ---- Bill Seubert System z I/T Architect IBM Corporation [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
