Re: Microsoft .NET frontending IBM i

["Raul A. Jager W." <raul@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Often you can gain orders of magnitude by optimizing code, it is far
more efficient than trowing more harware.

The limit to blame on microsoft is that your application must run on a
PC, and is not scalable to bigger computers.

Richard Schoen wrote:
> Ah, OK :-)
>
> So if your server is choking because you're using all of its capacity you can code your way out of it ?  Hmmmmm...... 
>
> Sometimes it does take more hardware not just more coding whether using Microsoft or IBM technologies.  
>
> Don't blame Microsoft for poor coding or inferior hardware issues :-)
>
> Regards,
> Richard Schoen
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> date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 13:42:09 -0700 (PDT)
> from: Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>
> subject: Re: [WEB400] Microsoft .NET frontending IBM i
>
> > From: Richard Schoen
> > Actually going back to the original thread this is a good example of 
> > scalability which in this case happens to be using Windows servers.
>
>
> Adding more servers to a server farm is not my idea of responding to increasing workloads "gracefully".  Throwing more hardware at a performance problem is not my idea of scalability.  It's more a symptom that the system is NOT scalable. 
>  Anybody can add a new server and route requests to it.
>
> Of course, Microsoft is working from a different play book.
>
> -Nathan