Firefox flaw raises phishing fears

ZDNET ^ | 1/7/2005 | Ingrid Marson

[antiRepublicrat]

BTW, look at it from the company's point of view. If Dell has a glitch that affects three minutes worth of orders during the holiday season, they have to deal with maybe 30 irate customers to try to find their orders, and a big company can easily afford that.

If Amazon's systems blew it for three minutes, their staff would be dealing with almost 6,000 irate customers looking for their stuff. That's a heavy load on any customer service department.

Obviously, higher traffic makes your systems critical in more ways than just transaction processing speed. It can have consequences that far outstrip the value of products affected by server problems.

[antiRepublicrat]

Now I applaud dell they are eating their own dog food, they sell mainly windows server so to runn *nix would be as embarassing

Since the anti-trust actions forced Microsoft to allow OEMs choice, Dell has been offering a lot of Linux for their systems, so that would be eating their own dog food too. OTOH, their Windows is obviously working well enough, and as the "shining star" of Windows installations, I'm sure they get a great licencing deal from Microsoft.

[N3WBI3]

Yea I know I bout a couple of PE 1700's running Linux for some web app clustering. What I have found is dells support of the redhat boxes is a joke. I mean to say they make most of their money selling windows servers so in that way they are eating thier own dog food..