From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 14:15:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 14:14:44 -0400 Received: from tangens.hometree.net ([212.34.181.34]:38608 "EHLO mail.hometree.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 14:14:37 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: forge.intermeta.de!not-for-mail From: "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" Newsgroups: hometree.linux.kernel Subject: Re: [OT] Threads, inelegance, and Java Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 18:14:35 +0000 (UTC) Organization: INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH Message-ID: <9gqp6c$k41$1@forge.intermeta.de> In-Reply-To: <3B30C4D2.30915E4@247media.com> Reply-To: hps@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Host: forge.intermeta.de X-Trace: tangens.hometree.net 993060876 9707 212.34.181.4 (20 Jun 2001 18:14:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@intermeta.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 18:14:36 +0000 (UTC) X-Copyright: (C) 1996-2001 Henning Schmiedehausen X-No-Archive: yes X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.1 (NOV) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Davide Libenzi writes: >On 20-Jun-2001 Russell Leighton wrote: [...] >> I had a company that gaves us a tech briefing of their system. >> They dumped mega-bucks into multiple Sun E10000s they needed to run their >> Java apps... >> the were proud of their scalable design, just add more hardware! >> True, the high level design was fine and trivially scalable w/more hw BUT >> what a waste, if their app was done in C they could have >> had it run faster and it would have cost them significantly less (in the >> millions of $$). >1) HW is cheaper than software engineers time >2) to find Java developers is easier than to find C developers >3) the ETA of the same project developed in Java is shorter than the same > project done in C 4) The Java project is easier ported from e.g. Windows to Linux or Solaris to Windows. Amen. You're right on spot. HW is cheap. Even E10K are cheap (relatively seen. ;-) ) Regards Henning -- Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen -- Geschaeftsfuehrer INTERMETA - Gesellschaft fuer Mehrwertdienste mbH hps@intermeta.de Am Schwabachgrund 22 Fon.: 09131 / 50654-0 info@intermeta.de D-91054 Buckenhof Fax.: 09131 / 50654-20