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To: GST who wrote (42707)	2/26/1999 2:54:00 AM
From: Bill Harmond	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

>>You'd really get a laugh at the underlying technology! Who cares? It works.

To: GST who wrote (42707)	2/26/1999 8:53:00 AM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 164684

OT***** What is wrong with DELL and INTC this AM? Glenn

To: GST who wrote (42707)	2/26/1999 9:57:00 AM
From: gjhinc	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 164684

<"...Frank Zappa once said..."><GST> You know, I thought that I knew you! Scanning through this morning... someone said... "Who cares? It works. " Yep. e-commerce kinda works for now. And it will continue to kinda work for a while yet. And god knows I don't wanna confuse any of the bulls with the facts... and, not to get too too technical... but. Here's a little food for thought. Transaction processing (TP) is an old and mature technoloy. Like banks, the phone company, airlines, nasdaq, sap ... These are the big-iron big-database systems. They can (and do) process 10, 20, 50 THOUSAND transactions per second (that's PER SECOND). In some cases the backend of your favorite e-commerce company is a real world TP system. "Web Server / Application Server" (WorldWideWasteOfTime) technology on the other hand is ...well... a "work in progress". It's been extended. Modified. Shoe-horned into something it was never met to be. Best web server can handle (what?) a couple ah hundred transactions pre second. And MANY MANY choke on that! Schwab is the biggest (and one of the best) e- commerce sites on the web. $95B Q4-98, 10000 simultaneous "connections", and we saw what happened this week when the tried to increase capacity. So. On the far left, we have 237M Americans with money in their pockets... ready to spend. On the far right, we have some big-iron big-database systems ready to handle tens of thousands of order per second. In the middle we have a little little pin-hole that we call the www. And I thank god every day for it. 'cause that's the problem that I'm paid to work on in 1999 (well me and thousands of other engineers). Now don't get me wrong. This problem will be solved... by much smarter people that me... thank god! But, in the mean time I'm not dumb enough to take to the last 5 years of internet growth and extrapolate it out even two more years... that's what marketing people are for. :-o LOL