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| 1020.1 | | 33018::KOCH | It never hurts to ask... | Thu Oct 31 1991 23:59 | 5 |
| There have been many notes regarding ORACLE to Rdb conversion. Is it
possible to convince the customer to bite the bullet and convert? The
TRIM tools will give his programmers an ORACLE-like development
environment and the benefits of the free Rdb Run-time license...
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| 1020.2 | If only ..... | MALLET::MATTHEWS | | Fri Nov 01 1991 15:16 | 15 |
| Well,
Unfotunately its easier said than done. The customer I am talking
about is an electricity utility . About 12-18 months ago the electricity
industry was privatised by the government. As part of the privatisation
process, new applications were created to allow for the new working
environment. The major application is based on Oracle and a VAX,
DECnet environment. All of the electricity companies in the UK
use this package, so as you can see it would be very difficult for
one company to declare UDI and do his own thing.
Sooo anyone come accross this MEIKO product before ??
Kevin
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| 1020.3 | Q: Computing-plane architecture with SPARC? | JENEVR::RLEE | | Wed Nov 06 1991 15:46 | 28 |
| I'm curious too...
MEIKO used to produce an accelerator for graphics visualization based
on the INMOS transputer. If you get anymore competitive mktg data -
please post it in a reply to your note.
Rough guess is that it might be a parallel processor architecture based
on their "computing plane" algorithms - but using SPARC processors
instead.
Generally, such an architecture is really fast at Content Based
Retrieval - as opposed to relational database data caching. The
software would produce a single query - farm it out to all of the slave
processors - and wait for the first one to reply with a match - where
each processor either owns a patch of memory mapped to disk or memory
mapped to main processor memory.
A possible counter-bid from us would be the MASPAR/DECstation 5000
combo - DECmpp 12000 series - using custom ULTRIX software from Third
Eye Software, Inc, Menlo Park, CA. Downside - it isn't VMS.
Either way - I doubt that Rdb/VMS can interface directly with such a
device without substantial DBS engineering involvement. What they
might be planning on doing is using the Oracle parallel processing
server code developed for the nCube machine test to drive their
parallel processing engine.
My 2 cents worth ... /bob lee/
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| 1020.4 | I can see them from here... | FILTON::BIRCH | Has anyone seen the goalposts....? | Thu Nov 07 1991 14:42 | 17 |
| Kevin,
Meiko are based in Bristol just across the road from the DEC office.
The CSO group in Bristol used to look after them; try giving their
manager Steve Davies (who now manages both Basingstoke and Bristol) a
call to see if he can put you in touch with the account manager.
The only contact I have had with this device is that a big VAX/Oracle
user in Swindon looked at it briefly and decided against it in favour
of a client server Sequent VAX approach. they couldn'\t make that work
so they so they stuck with VAX, which, given ourrecent announcements,
looks to have been a smart move.
HTH
Cheers
PDB
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