Here is the quick notes from the session Falcon from the beginning by Jim Starkey and Ann Harrison
- Why Falcon
- Hardware is evolving rapidly, world is changing, so taking advantage
- Customers need ACID transactions
- Where hardware is going
- CPUS breed like rabbits (more sockets, cores, threads/core)
- Memory is bigger, faster and cheaper
- Disks are bigger and cheaper but not much faster
- In general boxes are getting cheaper
- Where applications are going
- batch - dead
- timesharing - dead
- departmental computing - dead
- client server - fading fast
- application servers for most …