barryrandall·2 年前·議論Back when I bought such things, SQL Server Enterprise Edition was about $30k per CPU socket, Oracle about $40k.
barryrandall·3 年前·議論Nobody is forcing anyone to sell unfinished product as if it were finished product at finished product prices.
barryrandall·3 年前·議論I think it's just the result of assembling a large number of humans. Beyond some size, relationships get replaced with internal politics and aggregated individual shortcomings become organizational pathology.
barryrandall·3 年前·議論There are lots of reasons to go plain text only, and stripping links and images from signatures is often in the top 10.