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| Title: | TurboLaser Notesfile - AlphaServer 8200 and 8400 systems |
| Notice: | Welcome to WONDER::TURBOLASER in it's new home shortly |
| Moderator: | LANDO::DROBNER |
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| Created: | Tue Dec 20 1994 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1218 |
| Total number of notes: | 4645 |
1078.0. "Oracle7 & VLM64: COMPUTERGRAM bashing" by NAMIX::jpt (FIS and Chips) Wed Jan 29 1997 09:15
Latest COMPUTERGRAM bashes VLM64:
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+ VLM HAS FEW TAKERS ADMITS ORACLE
Oracle Corp has admitted there are very few takers for its VLM
Very Large Memory configurations of Oracle 7.0 running on
Digital Equipment Corp's Digital Unix. Running a large chunk -
up to 14Gb - of database in memory does not help process
transactions any quicker - they are quick reads and writes to
the database, says Oracle. The only kind of application that
could benefit from VLM is complex queries in data warehousing,
where you need to pile up large amounts of data in memory and
check through it. Oracle concedes there has been a lot of fuss
about VLM on DEC's 64-bit Turbolaser systems, and not much
revenue in the 18 months the combination has been on offer (CI
No 2,647). This is because only a handful of companies need
that kind of throughput, and, more importantly, few are
prepared to pay the price for the special configuration. That
said, the lack of trade in VLM configured systems is not
stopping rival Informix Corp from moving its relational
database OnLine Dynamic Server onto Silicon Graphics Inc ha
rdware. Version 7.21 of Informix's database can run in VLM on
Silicon Graphics Challenge servers, running version 6.2 of the
IRIX 6.2 operating system, a 64 bit implementation. The release
follows hard on the availability of the Red Brick Warehouse
from Red Brick Systems Inc for the same machine.
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| 1078.1 | | SX4GTO::OLSON | DBTC Palo Alto | Thu Jan 30 1997 13:09 | 11 |
| what, don't these computergram analysts know that Informix has had
VLM on our hardware since Informix 7.20? They mention Oracle VLM on
Digital, then skip straight to Informix 7.21 VLM on SGI...even the
analysts don't know?
We spent three years and millions of dollars in the trenches doing the
engineering work with Informix and it gets very disheartening to see
such a lack of recognition.
Doug Olson
Informix Onsite Project Manager
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