Re: More COMMON

["Steve Richter" <stephenrichter@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/12/06, Trevor Perry <tperry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> COMMON starts next Sunday - and, I guess some of the rumors are starting to
> spread.

yeah, it is a bit discouraging.

> I have three suggestions:
> 1) Read here for some ideas:
> http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh091106-story01.html (~some~ of it is true)

I always read what ITJungle has to say. It all seems to be marketing
which I think is something that does not need correcting. No mention
of price cuts or an end to the practice of gearing down the system.
With the i5 priced at 4x that of the p5 why would a company choose to
do its database or web site or web service serving from the i5?  i5/OS
is a good OS. But its value add is subtle in the server world. You
dont need output queues or work managment or job queues or even
integrated security when serving web pages or ODBC result sets. What
is needed is market priced CPU that can meet the need of a companies
growing needs.

-Steve