At 8:06 AM -0800 3/10/99, Alejandro M. Ramallo wrote:
>This is the latest on the Sharper Image WO issue.
>
>http://www.sun.com/servers/success/sharperimage.html
>
>Notice the quote:
>"We wanted a server infrastructure that would take us to where E-commerce
>is going. The existing platform couldn't handle the volumes we were
>getting on the Web site. Sun's Sun Enterprise 450 workgroup server could,
>with a lot of room to spare on computing power and disk space."
>;-(

Sounds like Sun talked them into their AppServer solution along with the
hardware.

Just watch their performance drop as they try to drive *everything* (as
announced) via the Oracle database.  Either that or they'll have enough
hardware to make it a non-issue.

mark
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