From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jul 22 21:56:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA51014E3C for ; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 21:56:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@airnet.net) Received: from airnet.net (tc14-216-180-35-242.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.35.242]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id XAA22850; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 23:55:56 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <3797F5DB.E6B72A21@airnet.net> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 23:55:55 -0500 From: Kris Kirby Organization: Non Illegitemus Carborundum. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: FreeBSd Chat list Subject: Re: Will Ebay ever learn? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 ------------------------------------------- TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message