Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 23:55:55 -0500 From: Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> Cc: FreeBSd Chat list <chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Will Ebay ever learn? Message-ID: <3797F5DB.E6B72A21@airnet.net> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990722233147.27774K-100000@cygnus.rush.net>
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Alfred Perlstein wrote: > It's called stupid design syndrome, they have a super powerful > sparc system running the entire database. > > The (multi?) million dollar machine is at capacity and one > burp from it and they die for hours at a time. > > Large central points of failure tend to do just that, fail. > > This is why clustering many, many machines is the right way > to do things (ie. hotmail) And the only way that Mickysoft thinks they have a chance to compete against a _single_ UN*X server. -- Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net> ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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