[geeks] my head just went explodey

[Eric Gustafson]

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Bill Bradford wrote:
| On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 08:56:38PM +0100, Mike Meredith wrote:
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|>Could it be that there is money involved ? Application server vendor A
|>bribes application vendor B into only supporting their application
|>server. Repeat for C and D, and so forth. We end up not just supporting
|>one festering pile of shit that falls over at the slightest prod, but a
|>whole fleet of the buggers.
|
|
| You should see the stuff I had to support at $WORK-1.  Telco SLA record
| keeping database.  Java/Tomcat/etc, using SNMP, talking to Oracle.
|
| "Oh?  its slow?  Throw a bigger machine and more RAM at it!"  (this was
| a dual-300Mhz Sun E250 with 2G of RAM and hardware RAID..)
|
| Bloated pig of a product that could have been better and much leaner
| implemented with PHP or Perl and MySQL.
|

Or Erlang and Mnesia!

| Bill
|


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Eric J. Gustafson                                      drobnox at drobnox.com
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