[Charlug] REAL stuff

[Leam Hall]

On one hand, yes. On the other I'd like to have at least some time to 
figure out the basics so I could really grasp what he might be able to 
provide.

I see a potential niche for tightly coupled performant software 
packages. For example, a website built on LighTTPD that uses the SQLite 
included in PHP itself.

The issue is that most businesses save money by following general 
trends. It's cheaper to buy a server twice as big than to hire a 
programmer twice as good. There's an approaching problem in that large 
organizations are paying boatloads of money for power and footprint in 
expensive datacenters. Their first step has been virtualization and that 
will buy them 2-3 years. In that time application isolation will drvie 
hardware needs down and the ability to make a very small "server" do 
your mostly encapsulated work will be useful. Large businesses will buy 
"devices" that do stuff and the devices will be Linux or BSD boxes 
configured a special way. Smaller businesses and non-profits will use 
some virtualization product to put a lot of servers on one box. If you 
can make a machine host twice as many guests for the same hardware 
footprint and power consumption, you have a niche.

Or so my thinking goes...

Leam

Bob Evans wrote:
> Well, the principal author of SQLite is Dr.Richard Hipp, of Charlotte, North
> Carolina.
> Maybe he will come back to the LUG again & speak...
> 
> Sound good?
> 
> -be
> 
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> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Jason Edgecombe <jason at rampaginggeek.com>wrote:
> 
>> Leam Hall wrote:
>>
>>> Bob Evans wrote:
>>>
>>>> I just wanted to share with any developers on list:
>>>>
>>>> I've had good success using REAL Basic and REAL SQL. I can write it once,
>>>> and run on either OS/X, Windows, or Linux.
>>>>
>>>> I am, as you know,quite lazy...
>>>> -be
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Me too, but I find the SQLite issue more intriguing. Not being much of a
>>>  Brainiac, I wonder home much of what I do with MySQL could be done in
>>> SQLite, and done better? My client's traffic is measured in dozens of hits a
>>> day, and hundreds of entries vice the thousands and millions MySQL is made
>>> for.
>>>
>>>  These two links look useful in the sqlite vs mysql category:
>> http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?design.4.281660.5
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3630/sqlite-vs-mysql
>>
>> Jason
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