Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!think.com!mintaka!spdcc!tauxersvilli!alphalpha!nazgul From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: The Hardy Few Message-ID: <1991Apr18.172300.18025@alphalpha.com> Date: 18 Apr 91 17:23:00 GMT References: <1991Apr6.072832.4012@cs.ubc.ca> <335@texas.gtephx.UUCP> <1991Apr18.171957.17924@alphalpha.com> Distribution: comp,world Organization: asi Lines: 19 In article <1991Apr18.171957.17924@alphalpha.com> nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) writes: >ratio to a 50/1 ratio. Twice as many sysadmins for the same number of >machines. (Here I go, following up to myself :-) This was one of those things that Apollo was never able to figure out how to sell. When you get to the checkoff list you see "networked file system" and you check it for both Sun and Apollo. You don't discover things like scalability until long after you've committed one way or the other and by then it's far too late. -- Alfalfa Software, Inc. | Poste: The EMail for Unix nazgul@alfalfa.com | Send Anything... Anywhere 617/646-7703 (voice/fax) | info@alfalfa.com I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate everyone else's.