On 12/16/2010 12:48 PM, MICHAEL MCGRADY wrote: ...
So, I think the non-functional requirements and related technologies, e.g., clustering, in-memory access, etc., are primary. For example, when scaling is at issue, it is not important that 300,000,000 transactions can be handled in 10 hours, say, but the fact that we can start at 100 transactions with economies of scale and then use the system to scale to 300,000,000 with the same performance is.
Given a system that does 300,000,000 transactions with acceptable response time, would you really object if the 100 transaction system had even faster response time?
Patricia
