[Info-vax] online oracle/vms/hp event starts in 10 min.

[John Wallace]

On Jul 25, 4:23 pm, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net>
wrote:
> On 7/25/2011 10:50 AM, Dave wrote:
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> > On Jul 25, 10:14 am, "Syltrem"<syltremz... at videotron.ca>  wrote:
> >> "Jan-Erik Soderholm"<jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com>  wrote in message
>
> >>news:j067rn$tqo$1 at news.albasani.net...
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> >>> Hein RMS van den Heuvel wrote 2011-07-20 05:29:
> >>>> On Jul 19, 9:50 am, Jan-Erik Soderholm<jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>> Volker Halle wrote 2011-07-19 15:36:
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> >>>>>> Jan-Erik,
>
> >>>>>> thanks for the heads-up, but the event size of 20 seems to have been
> >>>>>> exceeded by now ;-)
> >>>> :
> >>>>> What the heck was they thinking about...
>
> >>>> I was at the (small) event.
> >>>> Nancy quickly became painfully aware that potential participants were
> >>>> being blocked but she not able to do anything about it, at that point.
> >>>> Tomorrow session will be set up for many more participants.
>
> >>>> The web event was a late addition and a bad cap was picked, probably
> >>>> based on a low number of folks having declared interest for the live
> >>>> event.
>
> >>> It's a seriously problem with the application if you can't dynamicaly
> >>> raise the user limit !
>
> Has it occurred to you that adding users might require additional
> resources that are NOT available at the push of a button?

But I thought everything in The Cloud was all done at the touch of a
button, and that, even before that, HP (or was it Compaq) were experts
in the Zero Latency Enterprise and such? Of course if you subcontract
stuff out to some outfit more accustomed to small scale
teleconferencing than  30 person telepresentations, and do so without
trying to match expected demand against capabilities offered, all bets
are off.