[geeks] Careeer shifting

[joshua d boyd]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 07:37:20AM -0700, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> On Fri, 2001-08-24 at 06:20, joshua d boyd wrote:
> > Err, I'd say that they are either Z servers (which is still s/390 pretty
> > much), or they are AS/400s which I don't usually think of as mainframes,
> > but that is where they get sold on Ebay.
> 
> No, got to be Z servers...  The databases in question are multiple
> hundreds of GB, with 3-4 indexes per database.  8000 updates an hour,
> off peak, isn't uncommon.

One more thing, are you sure that when they say mainframe they actually
mean it?  Otherwise, could it be a monstrous RS/6000, which could in
theory handle the load, although I don't think that it would really be
price competitive.  But with some peoples biases, who knows...

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd