On Tuesday 24 September 2002 02:42 pm, David Boyes wrote: > > If you think that your test is not *widely* used by IBM, IBM partners, > > vendors, developers, integrators, grocery baggers, etc. etc > > etc you need to tap into this place we call reality. [...] > > No, but most of the others have had the courtesy to let me know that > they're using it. I'm aware it's published and available, but it's pretty > rotten form to use it without at least the courtesy of a note.
In my experience with IBM people, they have mentioned Test Plan Charlie but have also been quick -- and careful -- to point out that 40,000 virtual servers was a useful demonstration and that customers shouldn't count on that as a hard number when estimating capacity in the real world. Yes, they mention the test, but in my experience they do it in a responsible and circumspective way. If someone else (not IBM, apparently) is quoting that number as a realistic capacity planning datum, then it isn't David who needs a reality check. What kind of ninny takes a single number from a lab-queen test and uses it to build the pricing model for their business? Scott -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scott D. Courtney, Senior Engineer Sine Nomine Associates [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sinenomine.net/
