From: Noons on
Serge Rielau wrote,on my timestamp of 1/01/2010 7:34 AM:

>>>>>>> • Increases the benefit of
>>>>>>> Oracle VM with the high
>>>>>>> availability and scalability of
>>>>>>> Oracle RAC
>>>>>> How many sites out there are running production RAC dbs in a virtual
>>>>>> environment? Last time I asked back in mid2009, I got no answer...
>>>
>>>>> Yeah, it's like how many DB2 environments are running 32000 linux
>>>>> images.
>>>> ROFL!
>>>> Couldn't have said it better!
>>>
>>> I know it's not funny when a joke has to be explained.. but what the
>>> heck was that all about?
>>
>> Just a cheap shot, Serge. You can find a zillion references on the
>> web to z-whatever systems, and the news at some point picked up on
>> someone running large numbers of linux images just to show it could be
>> done. Then taking a sarcastic leap of marketing-will-always-
>> exaggerate faith.
> I did wonder whether Noons intended to say mainframe instead of DB2.
> That was the only way I could resolve the puzzle...

Relax, Serge: Noons didn't write it, he just laughed at the joke.
Maybe if IBM bozos spent some time reading instead of jumping into the usual
ad-homine insinuations they wouldn't look so ridiculous?
HNY:
http://wizofoz2k.deviantart.com/art/Welcome-2010-148684836
From: joel garry on
On Dec 31, 5:50 pm, Noons <wizofo...(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote:


> HNY:http://wizofoz2k.deviantart.com/art/Welcome-2010-148684836

Ooh baby!

I just finished work...

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From: hpuxrac on
On Dec 31 2009, 8:50 pm, Noons <wizofo...(a)yahoo.com.au> wrote:

snip

> Relax, Serge:  Noons didn't write it, he just laughed at the joke.
> Maybe if IBM bozos spent some time reading instead of jumping into the usual
> ad-homine insinuations they wouldn't look so ridiculous?

I don't think I understand Australians evidently but are you calling
Serge an IBM bozo for just asking what the inside joke was or is this
some other reference to other IBM employees?

I do not at all understand why there is so much anti IBM trash talking
that goes on in this newsgroup.

From: Mladen Gogala on
On Fri, 01 Jan 2010 05:29:01 -0800, hpuxrac wrote:

> I don't think I understand Australians evidently but are you calling
> Serge an IBM bozo for just asking what the inside joke was or is this
> some other reference to other IBM employees?

Ah, saint John on yet another mission to preserve civility on this group.
Nuno, you shall wash your hands before lunch and eat your spinach! While
at that, have a happy New Year, both of you.



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From: Noons on
hpuxrac wrote,on my timestamp of 2/01/2010 12:29 AM:

> I don't think I understand Australians evidently but are you calling
> Serge an IBM bozo for just asking what the inside joke was

no, for claiming that I wrote it. When clearly - even to you I think - I did not.

> or is this
> some other reference to other IBM employees?

The ones that troll around the db2 nonsense? Yes, it is.


> I do not at all understand why there is so much anti IBM trash talking
> that goes on in this newsgroup.

You've got to go back a few years...
Mostly not IBM, just one of their products. But given they all blurt from the
same stable...

And no: it's not going to stop because you might dislike it.