Finally a machine to run M$ Access ... ;)

[kap]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080925/ap_o...e_hardware

[what4]

And it's only $650,000 each.

How many should we order?

Check your pocket change.

[Jimmypoo]

Would the 1400 iPods be cheaper??

[GGD]

SAN FRANCISCO – Oracle Corp. is selling computer hardware for the first time in its 31-year history, signaling an ambition to become more than a one-stop shop for business software.

I wonder if they'll be as successful as the last "first time" they ventured into hardware.

http://www.usfca.edu/~morriss/478/projec...ction.html

[clay]

Jimmypoo wrote:
Would the 1400 iPods be cheaper??

Well, 1400 120gb ipods @ $249 each = $348,600

So you'd have about 300k left over to buy a couple of cheap database machines.

Way more fun than an Oracle machine!

[Jimmypoo]

Who could have predicted that CPUs would get smaller, double their power and end up costing half as much as the previous generation every few years - to make such an "invention" pointless?

Who?

WHO COULD DO THAT AND EXPECT TO BE RIGHT?? Who could possibly have known enough about
the technology to know that this is how computing power would progress over time, and put the
power of a super computer, literally 16 cores of super computer, as is the case of the Power6 chip
by IBM, on the space of a standard CPU?

Who knew that the laws of physics would be applied on a micron scale to make such computers as the NetPC completely unnecessary??

Gates? Ellison? Obviously not!

In the face of such expertise --- how can they be faulted?!? On the road ahead -- how could anyone foresee that or that DWM fiber already in place could be used for data too? I mean... come on! It was way back in 1995!!

[Jimmypoo]

I ASK AGAIN, ONE MOORE TIME.....




WHO!!???


neaky:

[GGD]

Jimmypoo wrote:
I ASK AGAIN, ONE MOORE TIME.....




WHO!!???


neaky:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law

[kap]

Al Gore?

[OWC Jamie]