On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 12:52:50AM -0500, Ivan Krsti?? wrote:
Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
My point was merely that he suggested more
powerful hardware, and
received as a reply, "no, the problem is that we need more powerful
hardware".
I really wasn't trying to get involved in a polemic about engineering
practices. Jeff seems to believe that buying one powerful appliance is
clearly a better approach than buying six commodity servers, and my
point was that -- for the Wikipedia use case -- that's at best very
unclear, and at worst very wrong.
For what it's worth, *my* perception of what jeff said parsed as "buy
*six* powerful appliances". :-) Or, more generally, COTS is
wonderful, but is it cost effective now to spec one or two levels
higher of COTS than we have been?
Cheers,
-- jra
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(I've been informed that the 'divorce' quote makes me look
misogynistic, even though Jennifer Crusie is (pretty obviously)
a female romance novelist. So I've removed it. :-)