From: Jim Starkey
Date: December 9 2008 5:09pm
Subject: Memory, Falcon, and $$$
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I took delivery of 40 GB of ECC memory for my cloud.  Excluding tax, the 
total cost was $420 plus tax, or $10.50 per GB (shipping was free).

This is a question that everyone should ask himself or herself 
regularly:  Would our users be willing to spend an extra $50 per server 
for a faster database?  How can we use memory better to improve 
performance.  And, does it make sense to sacrifice adequate memory 
performance to work in low memory situations?


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Jim Starkey
President, NimbusDB, Inc.
978 526-1376