David Crayford wrote: <begin extract> I know it's heresy on this list, but in the distributed world they would just add another server and/or add more grunt to the network. </end extract>
The granularity of mainframes is of course greater, but additional storage and CPEs are available. This strategy, that of throwing hardware at problems, has been around in the mainframe world for decades. IBM salesmen used to call the customer CIOs who used it routinely "hardware hawks", perhaps still do. They were much appreciated, though not much respected. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
