remember Tandem Computers ("nonstop")??
there were 2 famous debacles out west here -
the State of California Dept. of Motor Vehicles system
for 10's of millions, and the Bank of America Trust
System similar mess. The BofA head of IT got sacked
over it if I recall.
-Ben
> You know, I heard a story a long time ago on an Interbase list that was
> confirmed by someone who claimed he was there. The story is out there on the
> web somewhere too.
> This big retail golf company had spent some absurd amount of money in the
> 10's of million's of dollars on a customized Oracle based CSR data entry
> system. Well after a year in development the big rollout day came, and it
> crashed. The system could barely handle 40 concurrent users without
> crashing! They had to shut down the call center until they could get the old
> system back up. It was designed for hundreds iirc.
> Anyway, the company lost millions of dollars, and Oracle themselves brought
> in 12 of their own developers to fix the system....around 6 months later it
> was finally finished.
>
> The only thing all that expensive software scales is their bottom line...
>
> jon
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Duane Boudreau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 6:29 PM
> Subject: RE: ATG Dynamo - Anyone????
>
>
> > the new suits in the tech dept :( completely changing everything from
> > CF/Win2K/SQL7 to solaris/java/oracle. unfortunately they are choosing to
> > ignore CFMX, based on nothing more than sheer bias. ColdFusion isn't
> > scalable you know (insert gagging noise)
> >
> > The price scheme is:
> >
> > 125k per processor for production boxes
> > 60k per processor for staging boxes
> > 5k per dev license
> > + 18% for support (not an optional)
> >
> > add Oracle and the cost is well over 500k w/o hardware
> >
> > everything has to be sun, cisco & oracle.
> >
> > thanks on the web site - CFExperts has been under construction for about 3
> > years now :) one of these days..... ha ha ha
> >
> >
> > Duane
>
>
>
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