> Server-level efficiency is the NUMBER ONE criteria for us in writing
> contracts for solutions for our 400+ different locations.
> Considering that
> some of our sole contracts run into the 100M$ ranges, that is a
> fair market
> size. At the PC level, efficiency is critical also, but not for
> the reason
> you might expect. Sooner or later some "PC benchmark" will be tested for
> one solution vs. another, and the "slower" solution loses - even if the
> users might have never noticed the difference.
I have to agree here, while PC efficiency isn't all that critical, server
efficiency is. In my experience, the top bottleneck in application servers
(and most platform-neutral solutions) is server capacity (a function of
power and efficiency), followed by LAN traffic. That reverses itself when
the servers are used in data-heavy environments (which is why we use
IEEE-1394 to connect our servers).
-Brad
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