You can differ all you want, but I've never seen a large .COM deployment without at least one senior SA swinging the clue-bat, backed up by a network planner and a senior architect. How do you think they write all that code and have it work? DEsign is much more difficult than maintenance and takes more skilled personel
-----Original Message----- From: Jim Mercer [mailto:jim@reptiles.org] Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 12:59 AM To: Roeland M.J. Meyer Cc: Joe Shaw; Paul Ferguson; Declan McCullagh; nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Yahoo offline because of attack (was: Yahoo network outage)
On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 12:02:34AM -0800, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
No one trusts the operation of a $1.5M Sun e6500 by a group of rookies. They can probably afford to hire the best SA's that they can find and no one running equipment behind anything larger than a T1 can afford to hire the ignorant. Not at the prices charged for that size of a pipe.
i beg to differ.
i've seen a large number of .com's which have mega gear, and minor-league SA's.
the problem is that alot of .com's seem to think that the vendor will be able to solve their serious problems, or that they can just hire some "certified" SA's to do the job.
-- [ Jim Mercer jim@reptiles.org +1 416 506-0654 ] [ Reptilian Research -- Longer Life through Colder Blood ] [ Don't be fooled by cheap Finnish imitations; BSD is the One True Code. ]