From Chapter Three: The Windows Culture

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"At a ratio of about one support technician for every 20 NT servers, PC staffing exploded along with server populations."
Could you give reliable source for that figure ?

"these problems led to the evolution of a one application per box rule"
in the late 90 this rule applied to all architecture except mainframe, Unix included.

"The first solution to be widely adopted was the rackmount. "
You seem to imply that rackmount was created to stack intel based servers, and wouldn't have existed w/o it. Sun was instrumental in the introduction of rack mounts. Similarly, he blade introduction and development comes from non intel architecture with major players having been Unix verdors.

... and it continues on

SAN storage was not devleopped for the windows server market.

HD access speed canoot favor SAN of local controller because of the bus speed, because both disk controller and network controller or FC controller shared the same bus when the solutions emerged.

Virtualization is not the consequence of consolidating windows server. virtualization appeared first on mainframe, and then on the linux market.

So one question, is this really an excerpt from a book that found an editor ?

Posted by: s_souche   Posted on: 12/05/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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