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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:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 12:59 AM > To: Roeland M.J. Meyer > Cc: Joe Shaw; Paul Ferguson; Declan McCullagh; [email protected] > 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 [email protected] +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. ] >
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