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From: wjb@hplb.hpl.hp.com (William Blench)
Subject: ST on big servers (scalabilty, in grown-up terms)
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I was wondering about big deployments of Smalltalk (any dialect) and realised
that most people measure large-scale by the number of Smalltalk clients,
often connected to an RDB. 

A real measure of scalability is to ask about the number of transactions
processed or the size of machine needed. Does anybody have metrics on,
say, intensive OLAP application-building in Smalltalk? Also, does anybody
have anything on scaling Smalltalk to the big multiprocessor boxes that
Unix box vendors like HP, Sun and IBM sell?

Regards,

Will

Will Blench, Consultant, Hewlett-Packard Ltd, Bristol, England

VisualWorks, PowerBuilder, CORBA, HP Distributed Smalltalk, lots more...
