> From: George R Smith > I told my sales rep that over a week ago - seems > strange doesn't it that the suggestion has to come > from the field.
> From: Brutzman, Bill > In my little world of fantasy... it would be great if > Rocket Software would... partner with a hosting > company... or otherwise... work make U2 > cloud-available. IBM had always treated U2 as the ugly stepchildren. They made a big splash over making DB2 and other software available in virtualized servers but there wasn't a word about such things for U2, even though it could be done easily. Maybe Rocket will do better. Installing Unidata or Universe on a virtual server is exactly the same as over any piece of non-virtualized hardware. I've blogged about my environment a few times: On my blog main page enter 'application virtualization vmware' in the search box and press Enter. I run eight MV databases plus SQL Server, MySQL and others, plus web server and other apps, all in the same virtual environment, with just 1GB of memory allocated. I wouldn't recommend this configuration for an end-user but for a development system it works great. If Rocket would authorize it, anyone could create a "U2 Virtual Appliance" for prospects and students to download. Get people using the platform without the pain of installing it. Create remote interfaces with a GUI and people don't even need to know they're running against a non-RDBMS platform. If Rocket would authorize it, anyone could install U2 in an Amazon EC2 server instance, then boot as many environments as required to support turnkey applications for short-term or long-term use. In this environment, store the data in Amazon S3 and charge for processor time and disk storage. Only charge people for what they use, not "per seat / per user" licenses. How tough is that? It's all technically possible right now. The only thing that stops us from using this fine technology in the modern world are the visionless bureaucrats who provide it. Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com Nebula R&D provides MV-related products and development services remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com/blog Visit PickWiki.com! Contribute! http://Twitter.com/TonyGravagno _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
