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Date:      Fri, 23 Jul 1999 02:46:37 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tani Hosokawa <unknown@riverstyx.net>
To:        Kris Kirby <kris@airnet.net>
Cc:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>, FreeBSd Chat list <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Will Ebay ever learn?
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.9907230246080.21579-100000@avarice.riverstyx.net>
In-Reply-To: <3797F5DB.E6B72A21@airnet.net>

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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... 

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tani hosokawa
river styx internet




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