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I found nice video. They are happy to tell the world that they can process 300 million transactions per day. So what?

from wiki :

Effective MIPS speeds are highly dependent on the programming language used. The Whetstone Report has a table showing MWIPS speeds of PCs via early interpreters and compilers up to modern languages. The first compiler was for BASIC (1982) when a 4.8 MHz 8088/87 CPU obtained 0.01 MWIPS. Results on a 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo (1 CPU 2007) vary from 9.7 MWIPS using BASIC Interpreter, 59 MWIPS via BASIC Compiler, 347 MWIPS using 1987 Fortran, 1534 MWIPS through HTML/Java to 2403 MWIPS using a modern C/C++ compiler. Source code, pre-compiled versions and results on PCs, for these and other benchmarks that measure MIPS, are available from Roy Longbottom’s PC Benchmark Collection (Free).

So, normal computer can do 9.7 millions of instructions per second. One transaction might be … lets say 1000-1500 instructions. So, they are happy that they can handle 300 million per day -> which is … 1/999 of what can one single computer handle . And they have hundreds of servers.I rest my case. Fooling non-IT people is so easy.