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To: Stormweaver who wrote (18522)	8/7/1999 4:15:00 AM
From: Byron Xiao	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

James, you are not making sense. Our E-Commerce sites use SUN servers. We have both Linux and Sparc development machines. 100% of our apps are running on the server. It's a fat server, thin client model, exactly what SUNW advocates. Seems like we are doing exactly what SUNW preaches. And you are talking about NOT needing a fault-tolerant configuration? If the site is down, just let it down for a long time until it's fixed? I have no idea what kind of hardware config EBay uses, I know that Amazon uses SUN servers (I work in the same downtown building as Amazon and I know a few of their engineers) They haven't had much problems. They are running some small in-house NT servers, and they have experienced FAAAAAR more down time in their low volume NT servers than their big volume "BIG IRON" E-Commerce SUN servers. That's exactly what Amazon engineers told me. Go ask them why. I am sure they can give you more than 10 reasons why they switched to the "BIG IRON" servers once their transaction volume reached a high mark.