The best internet comment that ever was
Friday, October 24th, 2008Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes and more yeses to you, good sir.
Look at what IBM has done with system 5 and DB2..
I started a job a while ago dealing with these things and MY GOD are they good. They’re the type of things that were built long ago when the geek was a mythical being with magical super-powers; in a time when computers were abstract machines that only a small elite group of hackers could master; they were built to sit and crunch for decades without hickup; they were designed to be almost literally and certainly figuratively bulletproof, I’ve heard lore of servers surviving floods, forklifts, and high-on-sugar 8 year olds armed with kool-aid; these are the types of machines that will let you SLEEP again; the types of machines that you just stand looking at a row of, sipping your black coffee (or mythical beer that is darker than even the darkest porter and known only to the gods) and admiring, knowing full well that a category 5 hurricane could rip through the datacenter and, while the secretaries and low-level bean counters are being impaled by office furniture (a gallant death indeed), your wonderful herd of boxen will stay alive and continue breathing; the building will fall, the company will fall, men will be killed, but the DATABASE, the DATABASE, my dear man, the DATABASE WILL BE GODDAMNED INTACT!
