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

From: Tony Barry (me@Tony-Barry.emu.id.au)
Date: Tue Aug 28 2001 - 21:32:09 EST

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At 9:38 AM +0100 28/8/01, 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.

Hell! I ran some courseware for a collegue from a Mac VX in 1995. I
think there was only 30 odd students though :-) I could tell when
they were doing a lab, it really slowed down.

Tony

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