On Sun, Jan 13, 2008, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote about "Re: [Job Offer and a byte more] PHP programmer and CTO": > Thank you, you just made my point. :-) Google succeded because they chose > a technology that could be expanded to do what they want. If they had chosen > Windows NT server, or VMS clusters they would have failed miserably.
I don't understand what you mean. Imagine that Google initially had some Sun Solaris servers in their university rack. At some point, they decided that PCs, and Linux, was more effective so they switched. What makes you think that Google only "expanded", and never switched technology? My guess (not founded on anything, since Google don't like to publish the technology they use) is that if you looked at Google today, almost nothing would look like the Google of 10 years ago. It's like that old philosophy question of, "if you take a red cloth, and start switching threads one by one with blue threads, you end up with a blue cloth. At what point did it become a blue cloth?". > If they had a second rate CTO, or were stuck in another technology, they Yes, this is obviously true. Which means they should choose a good CTO - not that a good CTO is useless once the initial decisions were made (which I thought is what you meant, but if I misunderstood, sorry). -- Nadav Har'El | Sunday, Jan 13 2008, 7 Shevat 5768 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Support bacteria - they're the only http://nadav.harel.org.il |culture some people have! ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
