Re: Anti Capitalism?

[Karl Denninger <karl@Mcs.Net>]

> 
> On Wed, 1 Jan 1997, Marc Hurst wrote:
> 
> > If you were to judge the practicality of Perry's estimate against  Karl's 
> > estimate of what would constitiute a proper infrastructure of such an 
> > operation would you not go with the opinion of the person whos' operation 
> > is more substantial and quite possibly would have far more experience in 
> > trouble shooting potential difficulties...
> 
> Yep. That's why I would side with Perry because he has more day-to-day
> experience with these sorts of database systems. Karl is an ISP and is
> somewhat farther removed from the realities of running a corporate
> database server.
> 
> Michael Dillon                   -               Internet & ISP Consulting
> Memra Software Inc.              -                  Fax: +1-604-546-3049
> http://www.memra.com             -               E-mail: michael@memra.com

Wrong.

I have built THREE.

One world-class transaction system for AC Nielsen (late 80s)
One world-class REAL TIME transaction system for VideOcart (and the network
	to deliver it) into ~250 grocery stores in real time (ie: while you 
	are at the check-out counter)
And a third which operates our customer service and operations center at
	MCSNet.

None of these were trivial, and none could be built (much less maintained) 
with $200,000.

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