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I find it hard to fathom how you can spend a million dollars on an application that can't scale past 100 users. Unbelievable!
by stuff4ben 17y ago
I find it hard to fathom how you can spend a million dollars on an application that can't scale past 100 users. Unbelievable!
- pbhjpbhj 17y agoIt's an interesting story - but the details must be massaged: did they really install the software on one day and expect all users to be accessing it the next, surely you'd have a parallel system run with something like payroll. If you communicated with the bank I'm sure they can put an account into some state in which payments could be simulated and never actually payed out so you know that the whole bank end of things works properly. And how the hell can the project manager not know that the software can't handle more than 100 users - indeed how was it limited? Doesn't one always design for some scaling, 100 sounds arbitrary and very low. Take away message: know when to quit. Know when to start again.