I am running Windows XP and Office XP on a 1 Ghz box with 512M ram. The responsiveness of office is terrible. (Takes much, 2x-3x, longer to open documents)
This may not seem like much, but when your 3-5 second open time jumps to 10-15 seconds, you definitely notice it.
Unix is dying at Dell huh? Ask him when he expects to pull the proprietary Tandem/NonStop Unix out of his shop. I know of a couple of those machines running their "critical" applications.
We have roughly the same thing where I am. MS's clustering is really a glorified failover machine. We do use the load balancer within MTS/COM+ to distribute loads, but even with SQL Server EE, I can only use the resources of the active machine for queries. Wouldn't shared computational processing mean I can use all processors/memory to join tables X, Y, and Z? I have heard that Oracle supports the shared everything, at least if you listen to Larry E.. Until Microsoft can do something similiar with their own products, it's hard to bring myself up to trying their stuff out.
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I am running Windows XP and Office XP on a 1 Ghz box with 512M ram. The responsiveness of office is terrible. (Takes much, 2x-3x, longer to open documents)
This may not seem like much, but when your 3-5 second open time jumps to 10-15 seconds, you definitely notice it.
How can you forget the "Boewolf cluster of dead game genres" posts?
Unix is dying at Dell huh? Ask him when he expects to pull the proprietary Tandem/NonStop Unix out of his shop. I know of a couple of those machines running their "critical" applications.
We have roughly the same thing where I am. MS's clustering is really a glorified failover machine. We do use the load balancer within MTS/COM+ to distribute loads, but even with SQL Server EE, I can only use the resources of the active machine for queries. Wouldn't shared computational processing mean I can use all processors/memory to join tables X, Y, and Z? I have heard that Oracle supports the shared everything, at least if you listen to Larry E.. Until Microsoft can do something similiar with their own products, it's hard to bring myself up to trying their stuff out.
Just my opinion.