http://storagemojo.com/2007/08/21/open-source-in-lean-it/ Data storage info & analysis Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:47:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://storagemojo.com/2007/08/21/open-source-in-lean-it/#comment-109108 Mike Trogni Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:53:29 +0000 http://storagemojo.com/2007/08/21/open-source-in-lean-it/#comment-109108 Thanks for the mention of an interesting article. VA has the advantage of starting recently with a "clean slate" - no multiple levels of legacy servers filling up an already bursting Data Center. Most open source web technologies are mature and stable, (I'm thinking Linux,Apache,PHP, MySQL), JVM's are free, the web middleware is free (JBoss or Sun) or expensive (Weblogic or IBM). Of course, web facing infra is becoming easy to rent at hosting providers - VA probably rents some internet facing servers for customers and has an internal (small) DC for internal services like email and intranet. Of course, support for the HW/OS is not free, Red Hat/Novell charges fees for enterprise support/patching services. A lot of times newbies forget that or suggest running a large enterprise without support, with might not "fly"(pardon the pun). Anything that works over the network can be outsourced (application/network monitoring, email infra, LAMP stack support , etc). Thanks for the mention of an interesting article. VA has the advantage of starting recently with a “clean slate” - no multiple levels of legacy servers filling up an already bursting Data Center. Most open source web technologies are mature and stable, (I’m thinking Linux,Apache,PHP, MySQL), JVM’s are free, the web middleware is free (JBoss or Sun) or expensive (Weblogic or IBM). Of course, web facing infra is becoming easy to rent at hosting providers - VA probably rents some internet facing servers for customers and has an internal (small) DC for internal services like email and intranet. Of course, support for the HW/OS is not free, Red Hat/Novell charges fees for enterprise support/patching services. A lot of times newbies forget that or suggest running a large enterprise without support, with might not “fly”(pardon the pun). Anything that works over the network can be outsourced (application/network monitoring, email infra, LAMP stack support , etc).

]]> http://storagemojo.com/2007/08/21/open-source-in-lean-it/#comment-108626 Marc Farley Wed, 22 Aug 2007 15:19:12 +0000 http://storagemojo.com/2007/08/21/open-source-in-lean-it/#comment-108626 Yesterday I looked at making a reservation on the Virgin site. It didn't go very well, the browswer hung a couple times and there was some psuedo fine print to read through. I'd say its not a very user friendly site. It probably won't make a huge difference to ticket sales, but who knows? The problem is the WSJ probably wouldn't print the story if Virgin ends up having to spend a bunch trying to fix the things that made it hard for customers to like them. Yesterday I looked at making a reservation on the Virgin site. It didn’t go very well, the browswer hung a couple times and there was some psuedo fine print to read through. I’d say its not a very user friendly site. It probably won’t make a huge difference to ticket sales, but who knows? The problem is the WSJ probably wouldn’t print the story if Virgin ends up having to spend a bunch trying to fix the things that made it hard for customers to like them.

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