[geeks] my head just went explodey

[Phil Stracchino]

Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>> Or has someone else seen something worse?
> 
> Dude.  You have No Fracking Idea.
> When we delivered the first phase of the application to the public, we
> had[0]:
> 
>    * Two IBM quad-processor RS64-IV database servers running Oracle.
>    * Two IBM dual-processor POWER4  application servers running
>      WebSphere.
>    * Two IBM uniprocessor POWER3-II web servers running Apache.
>    * A couple of Dells that generate and print PDFs for mailing.
> 
> And all, that, with 8GB of memory on the DB servers, 4GB on the app
> servers, and 2GB on the web servers (each, mind you) would suppport...
> 
>    Four concurrent users.
....
> With this "Rapid Application Development" stuff, it took two years,
> millions of dollars of hardware, millions of dollars of software, and
> the result fell flat on its face.
....

> Also, there was the requirement that there be no "system-specific" code.
> They -rewrote- lpr, lpd, zip, unzip, cron, and numerous other utilities
....


Holy gibbering Cthulhu in cherry-flavored edible underwear.  That almost
makes me feel physically ill.


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