Re: Re: [Nolug] call for help: white papers to show my CIO regarding Linux, Unix & Oracle

On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 20:10, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 15:38, rbstrickland@cox.net wrote:
[snip]
> I remember hearing, and believing, the same thing in the mid 80s. That
> was until I worked on a mainframe and saw how a box with 0.6 MIPS (yes,
> 3/5th of a MIP!) and 6MB RAM running a relational DBMS could handle 60
> clerks plus developers compiling code.

Oops. It was actually 6 MIPS and 8MB RAM. Point still valid, though...

[snip]

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