From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Sun Sep 10 2000 - 14:47:38 MDT
Spike Jones wrote:
>
> > Emlyn O'Regan wrote: Is it so important to be
> > geographically close to my complementors, and my competition?
>
> They steal each other's employees.
Or, more to the point, the best (or, at least, more competent in the
necessary fields on average than the general American population)
employees tend to congregate here, so you don't have to pay moving
costs for as many people in order to get the same caliber talent.
(H-1Bs excepted, but if you're going to do *all* immigrant labor, then
it's cheaper to just set up shop where they already are - which is part
of why Silicon Valley isn't the only tech hub in the world.)
At least, that's my reason for living in the area.
> New topic please: those of you who use databases, please advise
> me here. For prime number research I have been using microsloth
> excel for database tasks, but it only holds 65535 lines per sheet
> and it gets overwhelmed if you start using multiple sheets with
> the entire 65k-lines. I need a means of storing info on about
> 300,000 primes, along with about 8-10 other pieces of info about
> each one. How now? spike
Yeah, it looks like you need to upgrade to a formal database. If you
don't have the money to shell out for an industrial-strength solution
(Oracle & competitors), you might want to check out mySQL.
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