Comment Classic obfuscation (Score 3) 300
Let me translate Microsoft's position:
1. Sun Enterprise 10000 systems have single points of failure. You can't hot-swap CPU boards arbitrarily, and the Ultra-5 front-end is a critical component.
2. Sun recommends that for high availability you cluster between multiple 10000 systems. This is bad.
3. Microsoft's commodity hardware platforms do not offer any of the scalability or reliability features of the Enterprise 10000, so clustering is the only option. This is good.
4. Microsoft's current clustering offering is primitive. In a survey, a majority of people said it was adequate.
5. Microsoft promises that Windows 2000 will have better clustering than NT.
6. eBay is not following Sun's recomendations that high-availability requires multiple systems. They have experienced outages.
BTW, it is shocking to me that eBay could have only a single server. This is at best incredibly naive; at worst blatant incompetence. Therefore I suspect it is false.
1. Sun Enterprise 10000 systems have single points of failure. You can't hot-swap CPU boards arbitrarily, and the Ultra-5 front-end is a critical component.
2. Sun recommends that for high availability you cluster between multiple 10000 systems. This is bad.
3. Microsoft's commodity hardware platforms do not offer any of the scalability or reliability features of the Enterprise 10000, so clustering is the only option. This is good.
4. Microsoft's current clustering offering is primitive. In a survey, a majority of people said it was adequate.
5. Microsoft promises that Windows 2000 will have better clustering than NT.
6. eBay is not following Sun's recomendations that high-availability requires multiple systems. They have experienced outages.
BTW, it is shocking to me that eBay could have only a single server. This is at best incredibly naive; at worst blatant incompetence. Therefore I suspect it is false.
