I didn't read the whole article. However, one of the arguments appears to be to tell a client to just buy more hardware. Is this always bad? Given the relative costs of hardware vs. personnel? In many cases it might be alot cheaper to just add hardware than it would be to hire alot of developers to re-write an application. It takes alot of 3GL developers to accomplish much of anything. Typical government rates are $60/hour billed to the federail government. That comes to about $115,000/year. Lets say you can get RAC and add another server for $75,000.
Just bringing up a point for discussion. I would think that as hardware gets more and more advanced, it will become cheaper and cheaper to throw hardware at something...
any comments?
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