From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 23 2:49:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from avarice.riverstyx.net (hq-port-97.harbour-dhcp-pool.infinetgroup.com [207.23.37.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DCB9156F6 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 02:49:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from unknown@riverstyx.net) Received: from avarice (unknown@avarice [207.23.37.97]) by avarice.riverstyx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA21582; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 02:46:37 -0700 Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 02:46:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Tani Hosokawa To: Kris Kirby Cc: Alfred Perlstein , FreeBSd Chat list Subject: Re: Will Ebay ever learn? In-Reply-To: <3797F5DB.E6B72A21@airnet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Kris Kirby wrote: > 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. Hotmail *is* UNIX... --- tani hosokawa river styx internet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message