Re: No future for DB2

From: <rkusenet_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 4 Aug 2005 07:58:15 -0700
Message-ID: <1123167495.881564.111420@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>

"Madison Pruet" <mpruet_at_comcast.net> wrote

> Since the IBM Informix Enterprise Replication uses less than 10% of the
> total resources, it is simply easier to replicate the whole DB. And since
> disks are so cheap now, I would have difficulty not justifying having a
> multi-node grid like arrangement so that the applications could be active on
> any of the replicated nodes.

so what you are saying is that with ER on a multi node replication (all updating
each other) one can develop a grid aware application which can not only provide high availability, but also load balancing.

A friend of mine in USA is working on a project like this only. He says it is incredible. Received on Thu Aug 04 2005 - 09:58:15 CDT