[geeks] Careeer shifting

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Fri, 2001-08-24 at 07:51, joshua d boyd wrote:
> 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...

Yeah, I'm sure.  My dad -still- calls it "DASD".  If they were moving to
RS/6000s, my dad would have to learn something about the underlying OS,
and they've not had to do any re-training for this move.  
	Greg