[Info-vax] online oracle/vms/hp event starts in 10 min.

[Paul Sture]

In article 
<cfc87a02-7f49-4027-956b-a0df1dfc7097 at dp9g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>,
 John Wallace <johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> On Jul 25, 4:23 pm, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
> > Has it occurred to you that adding users might require additional
> > resources that are NOT available at the push of a button?
> 
> But I thought everything in The Cloud was all done at the touch of a
> button, and that, even before that, HP (or was it Compaq) were experts
> in the Zero Latency Enterprise and such? Of course if you subcontract
> stuff out to some outfit more accustomed to small scale
> teleconferencing than  30 person telepresentations, and do so without
> trying to match expected demand against capabilities offered, all bets
> are off.

Zero Latency Enterprise (ZLE) was definitely Compaq.  The demonstration 
videos I saw demonstrating it appeared to be aimed at telcos using 
Tru64, and we know wat happened to that.

I've probably still got the video CDs somewhere...

-- 
Paul Sture