Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264638AbTIDEQH (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2003 00:16:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264645AbTIDEQH (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2003 00:16:07 -0400 Received: from smtp.bitmover.com ([192.132.92.12]:8837 "EHLO smtp.bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264638AbTIDEQD (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Sep 2003 00:16:03 -0400 Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 21:16:00 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: Davide Libenzi Cc: Larry McVoy , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Scaling noise Message-ID: <20030904041600.GA16959@work.bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: Larry McVoy , Davide Libenzi , Larry McVoy , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <20030903173213.GC5769@work.bitmover.com> <89360000.1062613076@flay> <20030904003633.GA5227@work.bitmover.com> <6130000.1062642088@[10.10.2.4]> <20030904023446.GG5227@work.bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (score=0.5, required 7, AWL, DATE_IN_PAST_06_12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1047 Lines: 25 On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 08:47:49PM -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote: > On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Larry McVoy wrote: > > Maybe because history has shown over and over again that your pet theory > > doesn't work. Mine might be wrong but it hasn't been proven wrong. Yours > > has. Multiple times. > > Why companies selling HW should go with this solution? Higher profits. > And more, why should business buy > into it, with the plan of having to rewrite their server infrastructure > to take full advantage of the new architecture ? Maybe, at the very end, > their is a reason why nobody is doing it. Yeah, it's easier to copy existing roadmaps than do something new. Even when the picture is painted for you. Sheesh. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/