The senior man seems to be one of those types that thinks if you get 9 women working on it he can get a baby in a month.

The s/w folks have to get ahold of the h/w, get documentation for instruction sets, get some idea of what the heck the senior man wants to see it do, and be allowed to work the project without some clueless accountant pulling funding for 3 months.

That's why so many of us prefer opensource, and of course we have no money for the latest multicore systems.

Mean while back on the ranch what we have now is synchronized swimming and platform diving in the same pool at the same time . And we are the ones sinking 10=50% faster

Not to side with such things, but as anyone who's dealt with at least some product support helpdesks can attest, companies are in the habit of fobbing off customers, or simply ignoring them if their repetitive standardised replies don't make the annoying bothersome questions go away.

Even Tesco's are that way to me when I ask them why they keep deleting popular product lines, especially the ones I buy a lot of, and especially since it contradicts what they earlier claimed would be their policy.

Don't you see? There's an US and there's a THEM, and if you want to be a THEM then you have to wear a brainslug and sell your soul.

An alternative way out - install Linux or a free Unix version and use shareware and freeware: problem solved.
Sadly, I'm limited to supermarkets for most of my grocery-type shopping.




"...AMD blades performed better by between 10 and 50 per cent..."
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oh dear, that certainly won't do. not to fear though, synchronized swimming for your viewing pleasure comes before wednesday's platform diving event... it's for the good of the whole...

It would have been a lot more informative to at least read the kinds of QUESTIONS this smart guy is asking, even though all the ANSWERS he's been getting are under NDA.

Type in "vmmark results" in google, and go to the results page. Check the Dell R900 versus the Dell 2950iii findings. Then go to Dell's page and compare pricing. Interesting, eh? The server with twice the CPU's is only perhaps 35% faster. Meanwhile, the software that is on it is licensed at $5500 per CPU socket. Kit and kaboodle, the R900 is twice as expensive per unit of VMMark than the 2950. R900 is clearly IO bound.

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The 10 to 50 percent is consistent with my DBMS based tests comparing Intel and AMD servers with virtually identical prices. - Neal

Typical Inq and Magee drivel... nameless quotes that we are supposed to believe to be real.