(From The Archive, e-mail in 2005 Feb.  Re-arranged for witness protection.)

The behemoth server news link

With the way that most corporate programmers write sqls, this server will become a necessity very soon for running one sql, minimal configuration 100GB memory (the sql wont' run unless the whole database is cached). 

It has to be accompanied also by 10Gbps custom built fiber links without repeaters in between servers across ocean (probably need to join hands with Xerox and AT&T since such technology hasn't yet existed).  This is to solve the performance problems associated with a typical EJB on RDBMS design by using COBOL style sequential programming in favor of set operations, on a set machine (this interesting mismatch puzzled me for a long time but now I finally understand why - Sun is a hardware vendor - like giving out free shavers for razors business in the long term).

Well, the funny thing is - such configuration might even be cheaper than to train a typical CIO/CTO to understand what system building is all about...