From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Jun 10 22:52:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA27160 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 22:52:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from softweyr.com ([204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA27153 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 22:52:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (zaphod.softweyr.com [204.68.178.35]) by softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA14841; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 23:51:45 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <3580C246.162391E3@softweyr.com> Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 23:53:10 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave CC: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gartner group article References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dave wrote: > > Forgive me if this has been discussed- I've been out of the > mix for a bit. Just wondering if anybody had any thoughts on > the gartner group article linked from the FreeBSD website. > (This seems worthy of a 'chat'.) > I refer specifically to > http://advisor.gartner.com/inbox/articles/ihl2_6398.html > > I find the reference to lack of performance tuning and focus on NT > most disturbing, but I hardly consider myself enough of an IT veteran > to draw any real conclusions from this article. > > Any thoughts on this? In the context of the original article, they may be right. While the development of SMP support in -current has been herculean, I doubt that even our intrepid -core members will have the time or machine resources to tune FreeBSD-SMP for machines with 64, 128, or 256 processors. If you could buy such a machine. ;^) Their conclusions about NT in this arena are colored a bit by Microsoft marketing hype. The 'trade press' seems far too willing to believe Microsoft has tamed the 'thousand monkeys' approach to developing large software projects. In fact, I'll go so far as to coin "Wes Peters corollary to Brooks Law:" "Adding thousands of programmers to a slow program makes it slower." -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message