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375 million isn't a firesale; especially when you're dealing with "email archiving" which sure sounds like a wrapper around the "cp" command.
by mynameishere 19y ago
375 million isn't a firesale; especially when you're dealing with "email archiving" which sure sounds like a wrapper around the "cp" command.
- jey 19y agoEven if that's true, that wouldn't be the first time someone made a boatload of money by doing something technically trivial. cp is hard for normal people to use, so throw a nice GUI on it and you end up with Veritas (backup software providers) and these guys.
- dpapathanasiou 19y agoIt's more than just "cp": you have to be able to index and search all that data (including attachments) to make it useful for legal & regulatory reasons, and that becomes less than trivial when dealing with upwards of a million emails per day.
- nickb 19y agoJust a "cp" command?! Heh... do you realize that some of the most successful startups in the recent history have been reimplmentation of various UNIX commands? Think about it for a second...
- danw 19y agonapster?
- nickb 19y agoWho re-implemented rsync? Who re-implemented finger? What about talk? When you start looking, you'll realize that blogger, mozy, twitter, GTalk etc. etc. are nothing more than versions of UNIX command line programs :) They say that a successful startup will implement and modernize one of the UNIX command line programs. I couldn't agree more.