Re: [LINK] $1B (US) wasted on bloated Java servers.

From: Danny Yee (danny@anatomy.usyd.edu.au)
Date: Tue Aug 28 2001 - 22:40:03 EST


Michael Skeggs wrote:
> It gets really out of hand when everyone doing the requirements expects
> growth, and at each stage they each add a 'little' just in case growth is
> higher than expected. I have had stand up fights with people who assured me
> that web servers wouldn't run on Pentiums (this was a while ago) and $30,000
> SUN kit (which admittedly is lovely) is needed to host a little brochureware
> site.
 
http://www.caa.org.au/ is currently running on a 66Mhz 486 with
16MB of RAM. It has served maybe 8 million requests over the last
three years...

Of course if their brochureware site is *literally* brochureware --
with nothing except 2MB scans of your print brochures -- then maybe
they do need a big Sun to host it :-).

Danny.



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