Those Mazda Rotary engines are silly fast! Then there is the Rotary Rocket <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_Rocket>; which I made some parts for in my past life as a welder (1 or 2 years before I met Remedy). Bummer it was too hairy to move by Chinook or it would be in a small museum about 40 minutes away from me.
Jason On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 8:19 AM, John Sundberg < john.sundb...@kineticdata.com> wrote: > ** > OK - that was probably the wrong thing to call it. > > Given - it is a ground up rewrite … > > Ground up rewrites have new issues and new performance characteristics. > http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html > > So — anybody’s past performance experience is pretty irrelevant. — > therefore we are sort of at a 1.0 scenario. > > So 1.0 or “new” or 9 or ??? somebody wants to call it … in some ways we > are all starting over. > > And in other ways - we are just going from 8.1 to 9.0 — which for the most > part applies to the ITSM application — not the engine. > > *What has happened is BMC has blended the applications and the engine as > one version number.* > *(IMHO - to get rid of the concept of using ARS as a dev engine …. which > IMHO - is what people liked about ARS all along)* > *Because - apps are easier to sell and more profitable than engines > (temporarily). (See SNOW)* > > But - that versioning and blending is false IMHO. > > It should not be called v9 instead it should be: > 9.0/1.1 > or maybe > 9011 > > Who knows … I was just saying that our past performance experience has > little to do with future experience, we are effectively at a 1.0 in terms > of understanding performance and as a result CAUTION is wise. You are wise > to consider that your existing hardware and OS environment is not > necessarily the right fit for your new environment. With that bit of > caution - you will be well served. Go blind around the corner ??? — well — > go for it. > > To simplify: > I see this whole transition something like this… > > ARS went from a diesel engine to a rotary engine… > > Everybody still knows how to drive the car (applications are the same). > It just takes different skills/understanding to work on the engine. > > > There should not be fear, lots of people know how to work with rotary > engines, and there are tons of tools for it … it just is the case that the > current skilled people with the diesel engine … need to “rethink/retrain” a > bit — and then they will be caught up. > > > Now the next question … should we do something about this Pacer? > > > > -John > > > > On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 8:37 AM, Chris Hughes <chris_hug...@bmc.com> > wrote: > >> > This release is really a 1.0 release (although called v9), >> ... >> > Regardless, this is a first release of a complete ground up rewrite - >> so CAUTION is the proper approach >> >> >> Hi John - >> >> It is is not the case that AR 9 is the first release of the AR Java >> Sever. The AR Java server was originally released to a limited customer >> base well over a year ago. These customers have been running the stack in >> production for most of this past year as well. The 9.0 release builds on >> the experience of those initial customers. >> >> Regards, >> >> Chris >> >> >> _______________________________________________________________________________ >> UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org >> "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years" >> > > > > -- > > *John Sundberg* > Kinetic Data, Inc. > "Your business. Your process." > > 651-556-0930 I john.sundb...@kineticdata.com > www.kineticdata.com I community.kineticdata.com > > > _ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" and have been for 20 years_ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"
