From: Scott Stallcup <stallcup@stsci.edu>
Subject: Re: MicroSoft to purchase Aonix?
Date: 1997/05/30
Date: 1997-05-30T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <338EC9E9.7960@stsci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5mkgrl$akp@ion1.ionet.net
Mike D Bates wrote:
>
> ... We're looking at moving from
> Unix platforms to running simulation on a cluster of Intel-based
> syatems running NT. The reason? The hardware is more plentiful and
> cheaper than what we currently use, ...
>
I've lived through this one before. Sure, the hardware is cheaper.
But I've found that you will spend far more money on software
development when you try to cram a large, complex, application
onto small cheap hardware.
This is particularly true when your application fits on one large/fast
Unix box and you move to two or more Intel "toy" computers because
one Intel box will not handle the workload.
How much do you spend on hardware vs. software payroll ?
>
> Along with the new platform, we'll be using a new language. The
> options are C++ and Ada95. I've been arguing for Ada95, ...
>
I think the hardware issue is a bigger problem...
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Scott Stallcup (stallcup@stsci.edu)
Space Telescope Science Institute
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-05-29 0:00 MicroSoft to purchase Aonix? Mike D Bates
1997-05-29 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-05-30 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-05-29 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1997-05-29 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1997-05-30 0:00 ` Robert B. Love
1997-05-30 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
[not found] ` <01bc6c71$0d641ba0$220b6dce@my-pc.neosoft.com>
1997-05-30 0:00 ` Dale Pontius
1997-05-30 0:00 ` jim hopper
1997-05-30 0:00 ` Scott Stallcup [this message]
1997-05-31 0:00 ` Steve Doiel
1997-05-31 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1997-06-02 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-06-05 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
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1997-05-30 0:00 gilbert prine
1997-05-31 0:00 ` Mike D Bates
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