In 1994, part of the Clinton administration's health plan proposed an increase in cigarette sales tax from 24 a packet to 99 a packet. Merrick Carey, then president of the AdTI, put a plan to Philip Morris whereby, for $30,000 a month, the Institution would conduct a campaign for them. The AdTI presented itself as a "bipartisan" economic think tank presenting an analysis of the Clinton plan, nowhere mentioning they were directly hired by Philip Morris to oppose the tax increase.
Put in italic and bold for the relevant section to stand out. In my own opinion what this company looks like and pertains to be, and especialy when you look at the above quote is a company who sells out to whoever gives them the most money. They almost freely admit to being paid pitbulls for whoever it is that needs a campaign fighting that they do not agree with.
It's like one company paying another to cause libel. Not right!
At work we currently use IBM's own offering of the P670 as our main database server. This little beauty (I say little but she's huge) has 8 processors and 48gb's of RAM. Running on a logical partition so we can simply reboot the system and reassign either memory or CPU's as needed.
Get one, actually, get two. You won't be sorry.
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Ok, so we all know the various CPU names and who makes them etc but do we actually know how they compare? Me and the team I work for have total ownership of 7 SAP Application servers and 1 database server, total ram in the DB server is 48GB and the App servers have been 4 and 12GB's each (normal compared to batch processing). They're all running on either IBM P630 to P670's. What does that mean? I have NO idea except that they are able to comfortable deal with 1200 active users at any given time.
now, if someone can tell me that Itanium will give us better performance for more we'll look into it, if it's Xeon then it's Xeon (pah but you get the idea). What I fail to see is why it's important what hardware is being used as long as it does the job it needs to do!
Here's an idea, I think X-OS is better than Y-OS because I said so and if you don't like it then my dad will beat up your dad.
Why does it matter what OS is used in a given situation? Surely that's down to the systems architect deciding upon what is best suited for the functionality they want at the price they can afford?
I stopped having the windows/linux/unix/*bsd debate a long time ago because once you learn more than how to install it (something I don't think a lot of/.'rs can do) then you realise that the OS is only as good as it's ability to do the job you want it to.
How exactly does shared source work? With various other FREE and Open-Source databases out there (MySQL, PostGreSQL) then why would people be tempted? The TCO of a windows server is lower admittedly but that's only because your server management team need to be less skilled to start with. With a linux/unix server you're stuck with a system that requires more competant Admins right from the start but once the system is up and running they get to sit around all day playing tetris.
Without getting into the linux/windows debate surely microsoft opening up their systems to any kind of peer review is better than them keeping it closed down? Hopefully with it being open (and I hop ethey mean the recent versions and not MS-SQL2000) then maybe more skilled developers can take a look at the code and pass across suggestions?
Even if we end up suggesting improvements for MSSQL surely that's better than trying to pander to MS to improve a flawed system? (by flawed I mean that MS_SQL has severe problems when your DB gets to 2TB).
Just a thought.
I know I should know better than to reply to this but PLEASE. It's spelled Europe and please don't include the British in that phrase. We can't help where our island is!
I think we're looking at this the wrong way. yes the amount of technological jumps that hard drives have made has slowed down but how can this be anything but a 'pause for air'. With the advent of more and more personal devices (mobile phones getting smarter, Sone PSP, PDA's, Palmtops, USB Storage, USB wireless etc. etc. ) people are getting more comfortable with hand held digital devices and will be looking at storing more data.
Isn't this yet another example of broadcasters and writers failing to come up with something new, showing yet again that the next big film is going to be yet another re-hash of an old film with better graphics. *groan* Even worse is this another game trying to do the Resident Evil jump and come across (not that I've got anything against Resident Evil) to invade our TV's. Admittedly the first film was very good but the second stank..
Enough of that though, I doubt this "film" will get near our TV screens but I'm still horrified to see they thought of it.
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In 1994, part of the Clinton administration's health plan proposed an increase in cigarette sales tax from 24 a packet to 99 a packet. Merrick Carey, then president of the AdTI, put a plan to Philip Morris whereby, for $30,000 a month, the Institution would conduct a campaign for them. The AdTI presented itself as a "bipartisan" economic think tank presenting an analysis of the Clinton plan, nowhere mentioning they were directly hired by Philip Morris to oppose the tax increase.
Put in italic and bold for the relevant section to stand out. In my own opinion what this company looks like and pertains to be, and especialy when you look at the above quote is a company who sells out to whoever gives them the most money. They almost freely admit to being paid pitbulls for whoever it is that needs a campaign fighting that they do not agree with. It's like one company paying another to cause libel. Not right!
umm.. the 'new hire' would be me!!!
Exactly that reason to be honest. Wrong terminology, it would be a failover/redundant system.
Thanks
Hiya,
At work we currently use IBM's own offering of the P670 as our main database server. This little beauty (I say little but she's huge) has 8 processors and 48gb's of RAM. Running on a logical partition so we can simply reboot the system and reassign either memory or CPU's as needed.
Get one, actually, get two. You won't be sorry.
Ok, so we all know the various CPU names and who makes them etc but do we actually know how they compare? Me and the team I work for have total ownership of 7 SAP Application servers and 1 database server, total ram in the DB server is 48GB and the App servers have been 4 and 12GB's each (normal compared to batch processing). They're all running on either IBM P630 to P670's. What does that mean? I have NO idea except that they are able to comfortable deal with 1200 active users at any given time.
now, if someone can tell me that Itanium will give us better performance for more we'll look into it, if it's Xeon then it's Xeon (pah but you get the idea). What I fail to see is why it's important what hardware is being used as long as it does the job it needs to do!
Thanks.
Here's an idea, I think X-OS is better than Y-OS because I said so and if you don't like it then my dad will beat up your dad.
/.'rs can do) then you realise that the OS is only as good as it's ability to do the job you want it to.
Why does it matter what OS is used in a given situation? Surely that's down to the systems architect deciding upon what is best suited for the functionality they want at the price they can afford?
I stopped having the windows/linux/unix/*bsd debate a long time ago because once you learn more than how to install it (something I don't think a lot of
Thanks.
How exactly does shared source work? With various other FREE and Open-Source databases out there (MySQL, PostGreSQL) then why would people be tempted? The TCO of a windows server is lower admittedly but that's only because your server management team need to be less skilled to start with. With a linux/unix server you're stuck with a system that requires more competant Admins right from the start but once the system is up and running they get to sit around all day playing tetris. Without getting into the linux/windows debate surely microsoft opening up their systems to any kind of peer review is better than them keeping it closed down? Hopefully with it being open (and I hop ethey mean the recent versions and not MS-SQL2000) then maybe more skilled developers can take a look at the code and pass across suggestions? Even if we end up suggesting improvements for MSSQL surely that's better than trying to pander to MS to improve a flawed system? (by flawed I mean that MS_SQL has severe problems when your DB gets to 2TB). Just a thought.
I know I should know better than to reply to this but PLEASE. It's spelled Europe and please don't include the British in that phrase. We can't help where our island is!
I think we're looking at this the wrong way. yes the amount of technological jumps that hard drives have made has slowed down but how can this be anything but a 'pause for air'. With the advent of more and more personal devices (mobile phones getting smarter, Sone PSP, PDA's, Palmtops, USB Storage, USB wireless etc. etc. ) people are getting more comfortable with hand held digital devices and will be looking at storing more data.
Isn't this yet another example of broadcasters and writers failing to come up with something new, showing yet again that the next big film is going to be yet another re-hash of an old film with better graphics. *groan* Even worse is this another game trying to do the Resident Evil jump and come across (not that I've got anything against Resident Evil) to invade our TV's. Admittedly the first film was very good but the second stank.. Enough of that though, I doubt this "film" will get near our TV screens but I'm still horrified to see they thought of it.