Mnemonic

[Mark McIntyre]

I notice you ignored this part.

It is funny how you throw stuff around, thinking that
it will impress people:

Shrug. I was just thinking that its funny how you throw stuff around
without thinking *at all*.

AZUL (http://www.azulsystems.com/products/network_attached_processing.htm)

has NOTHING to do with dot net:

Its a hardware java virtual environment. You were wittering on about
virtual machine environments as if they were inevitably slow.

<quote>
Applications from heterogeneous hosts running different versions of
Java (1.4 or 1.5) can all tap into Compute Appliances at the same and
support Linux, Solaris, HP-UX and AIX operating systems.
<end quote>

Thanks - I just spent about £400K on an Azul environment to run an
industry-standard securities trading system written in Java, I _think_
I know what Azul does.

The business world has ALWAYS followed Microsoft since the Microsoft
Disk Operating System times (MSDOS). So what?

You have *absolutely no clue at all*.

Large chunks of the financial markets ran on VMS till less than a
decade ago. Today, Solaris and other big-iron unices are fighting for
server space with Linux grids and Windows blades.
--
Mark McIntyre

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
--Brian Kernighan