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>Constantly sparing over "techie" nits will not help. I read your posts and I don't see how what you are saying is any different from what we are saying. You are promoting technologies, we are promoting technologies. The both have their good sides and bad sides. Using the most widely excepted technologies doesn't mean it is the right fit for a business (which is what I am gathering from you). Maybe the approach we need to take is sell solutions to customers and not technology. Tell the customer what you can deliver, how long it will take, and what kind of SLA (Service Level Agreement) you can wrap around it. Aaron Bartell -----Original Message----- From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dave Odom Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 6:11 PM To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [WEB400] native PHP in V5R4??? Joe, When time permits, I'd like to see those bench marks that I can look at them and see how the experiments were constructed? Or were they from someone's actual experience? That's valid, I'd just like to see how their experiments were constructed. What you claim may be true on the iSeries the way the optimizer and SQL work, but I have other experiences on the regular DB2s and ORACLE (possible exception with IMS DC[lighting]). So, what I say can hardly be passed off as patently false in all cases on all platforms. But this is "niting" again. >> And somehow, in your perception of "the big picture", the fact that the iSeries has BOTH tremendously fast native access and ANSI standard SQL access means that the iSeries has no future. I cannot glean any sense from this statement.<< You're not really reading and understanding what I'm saying then. >> The truth is that most anything you can do in SQL outside of a few vendor-specific extensions you can do on the iSeries. << Probably, using its SQL. >> And then, when you need extra performance, you can go to native I/O. In fact, RPG is the only language I know of that allows you to access your database both ways, which in my mind makes it leading edge!<< Not a good enough selling point for those outside the iSeries world looking at an RDBMS and writing the checks. I really wish you could see what I see and the fact I'm trying to help the platform (and therefore you and others) compete in the RDBMS market place. Constantly sparing over "techie" nits will not help. Dave >>> joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 2/23/2006 20:53:12 >>> > From: Dave Odom > > I wondered when you'd chime in. Let me know when you are ready to > tackle the big picture of the iSeries perception and ways to have it > taken seriously when competing against is internationally recognized > RDBMS rivals. I'm not "chiming in". I'm just countering your patently false statement that SQL is anywhere near as fast as native I/O for transaction processing. The fact is that native I/O is much faster, period. Until you admit that fact up front, the rest of your "big picture" is a waste of time. You constantly try to edge in statements like "SQL is VERY fast when the appropriate indexes... la la la la la". You ignore benchmarks that prove that SQL is up to 10 times as slow as native access on record-by-record access. This constant contradiction of reality removes all credibility from anything else you say. > And since I have been around for a long time and have faced the big > picture and realized what makes a platform have a future, I try to get > the faithful to recognize the "elephant in the living room". And somehow, in your perception of "the big picture", the fact that the iSeries has BOTH tremendously fast native access and ANSI standard SQL access means that the iSeries has no future. I cannot glean any sense from this statement. The truth is that most anything you can do in SQL outside of a few vendor-specific extensions you can do on the iSeries. And then, when you need extra performance, you can go to native I/O. In fact, RPG is the only language I know of that allows you to access your database both ways, which in my mind makes it leading edge! Joe -- This is the Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries (WEB400) mailing list To post a message email: WEB400@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/web400 or email: WEB400-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/web400.
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