On Feb 8, 2008 3:20 PM, Serge Knystautas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 8, 2008 3:17 AM, Danny Angus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Feb 7, 2008 12:14 AM, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > That's generally down to laziness, not good architecture. > > > > I don't think its fair to characterize the perfectly reasonable desire > > to minimise the admin overhead of systems, and the size of the skills > > base required as "laziness", it is in fact a strategy with reduces > > both cost and risk. > > IMHO the primary goal of 21st century software development is laziness > maximization. For example, I will gladly spend an extra $99 for 2GB > more RAM per server in a 5 node cluster over having my developers > spend 1-2 days optimizing memory usage in their code. > > When I'm expecting my cluster to have 100 servers, then I can > cost-justify having someone like Noel come in and tell me how to > architect my system better so I don't have to spend $10,000+ on RAM, > or how to do the same traffic with 50 servers. In the meantime I'll > gladly take options that expand my flexibility and help me get by.
:-) given a good web admin application, a completely embedded solution (JAMES+DERBY in WAR) would be a good match for the SMBs targetted by Apache OFBiz - robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
