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How did you determine using Windows was a mistake from the information presented in the article ?

meepmorp 14y ago
Cause it's a bias of his, likely. What I get from the article is a classic tale of crappy IT management, the like of which I've seen and heard of several times.
njharman 14y ago
"Using Windows was a mistake" is a truism. Also, from the article, project failed. Failure is regularly equated with having made mistakes.
- timeshifter 14y ago
  > "Using Windows was a mistake" is a truism. No. No, it is not. > Failure is regularly equated with having made mistakes. And what mistake did Windows make here? Keep the baseless insults inside your head, please.
- recoiledsnake 14y ago
  > "Using Windows was a mistake" is a truism If you use or have used StackOverflow or Newegg, realize that you too are using Windows. Projects' success and failure is much more correlated with the folks running them than the technologies they use.
- smsm42 14y ago
  In the same vein, one could claim use of humans to write code was a mistake. After all, the project failed, this means they made a mistake, so obviously they should have used trained hamsters instead. Do you see where your logic failed you?
lifeguard 14y ago
A: ungraceful crash under load
- ams6110 14y ago
  Sorry, a database-backed web app works just fine on a Microsoft stack, there are thousands of them out there and I say that as someone who vastly prefers unix but this is clearly a project management fiasco and architecture design fiasco, not a technology stack fundamentally unable to handle the demands.
  - lifeguard 14y ago
    I agree the MS stack works fine in the dev lab.
    - lifeguard 14y ago
      from the down votes apparently it doesn't work in the lab either!
      - rhizome 14y ago
        No, just that you're plainly talking out of your ass.
    - hythloday 14y ago
      Stack Overflow (you may have heard of them) runs a Windows stack with Linux used only for caching & logging (because it's "cheap"). http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with/ http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflo... http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/3/3/stack-overflow-architecture-update-now-at-95-million-page-vi.html http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/3/3/stack-overflow-arch...
- cube13 14y ago
  Which also can happen with a terribly coded application running on Linux. Or with a terribly configured apache server. This was a meatspace failure, more than anything else.

Cause it's a bias of his, likely. What I get from the article is a classic tale of crappy IT management, the like of which I've seen and heard of several times.

njharman 14y ago

"Using Windows was a mistake" is a truism. Also, from the article, project failed. Failure is regularly equated with having made mistakes.

timeshifter 14y ago
> "Using Windows was a mistake" is a truism. No. No, it is not. > Failure is regularly equated with having made mistakes. And what mistake did Windows make here? Keep the baseless insults inside your head, please.
recoiledsnake 14y ago
> "Using Windows was a mistake" is a truism If you use or have used StackOverflow or Newegg, realize that you too are using Windows. Projects' success and failure is much more correlated with the folks running them than the technologies they use.
smsm42 14y ago
In the same vein, one could claim use of humans to write code was a mistake. After all, the project failed, this means they made a mistake, so obviously they should have used trained hamsters instead. Do you see where your logic failed you?

lifeguard 14y ago

A: ungraceful crash under load

ams6110 14y ago
Sorry, a database-backed web app works just fine on a Microsoft stack, there are thousands of them out there and I say that as someone who vastly prefers unix but this is clearly a project management fiasco and architecture design fiasco, not a technology stack fundamentally unable to handle the demands.
- lifeguard 14y ago
  I agree the MS stack works fine in the dev lab.
  - lifeguard 14y ago
    from the down votes apparently it doesn't work in the lab either!
    - rhizome 14y ago
      No, just that you're plainly talking out of your ass.
  - hythloday 14y ago
    Stack Overflow (you may have heard of them) runs a Windows stack with Linux used only for caching & logging (because it's "cheap"). http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflow-built-with/ http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflo... http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/3/3/stack-overflow-architecture-update-now-at-95-million-page-vi.html http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/3/3/stack-overflow-arch...
cube13 14y ago
Which also can happen with a terribly coded application running on Linux. Or with a terribly configured apache server. This was a meatspace failure, more than anything else.