Oracle TV ad

I saw an Oracle ad on TV yesterday. It's starts off, "The IBM is the fastest
and most reliable computer..", something like that. They actually showed a
big black mainframe, the one with the red stripe going down. I thought ,
the mainframe is finally getting the praise it deserves. But then they said
something like, if the mainframe goes down, so does everything, and how
their grid-computing was better. Has anyone else seen that ad?

Matt

Yes

JCE

"Matt" <mcollins_fl@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I saw an Oracle ad on TV yesterday. It's starts off, "The IBM is the
>fastest
> and most reliable computer..", something like that. They actually showed a
> big black mainframe, the one with the red stripe going down. I thought
> ,
> the mainframe is finally getting the praise it deserves. But then they
> said
> something like, if the mainframe goes down, so does everything, and how
> their grid-computing was better. Has anyone else seen that ad?
>
> Matt

In article <v1yKe.3833$Yx1.2741@tornado.tampabay.rr.com>,
"Matt" <mcollins_fl@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I saw an Oracle ad on TV yesterday. It's starts off, "The IBM is the faste
st
> and most reliable computer..", something like that. They actually showed a
> big black mainframe, the one with the red stripe going down. I thought coo
l,
> the mainframe is finally getting the praise it deserves. But then they sai
d
> something like, if the mainframe goes down, so does everything, and how
> their grid-computing was better. Has anyone else seen that ad?
>
> Matt

Sort of a misstatement.

If a processor on the IBM goes down, others can be hot-swapped in.

If DASD goes coasters-up, the RAID system will ensure seamless fail-over.

If the one Black_box-with-red-strip gets nuked -- the parallel box on
the other side of the country will seamlessly pick up the slack.

OTOH -- you have to put up with a quarter-century old development
environment in exchange for that reliability...some days you just really
miss code completion.