[Info-vax] Using VMS for a web server

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <10801f5d-10d6-4751-8ae6-79f361100bce at googlegroups.com>,
	johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk writes:
> On Sunday, 7 June 2015 20:33:22 UTC+1, Dirk Munk  wrote:
>> johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
>> 
>> >>
>> >> Sometimes it's not cost that is involved, it is good design.  Many times
>> >> it doesn't cost more to do the job "right", and sometimes it cost less.
>> >
>> > Beautifully put.
>> >
>> > Over here, the bit about "doing it right" vs "doing it shiny" is
>> > exemplified by London's Millenium Bridge. Very shiny on paper (or
>> > modern equivalent), functional disaster in the real world, slightly
>> > embarrassing for a country that used to have a world leading bridge
>> > design industry, cost a small fortune to fix. But shiny.
>> >
>> 
>> Well, to be fair to the designers, the movement of the bridge isn't that 
>> unique. We had a similar problem in the Netherlands with the Erasmus 
>> bridge in Rotterdam (it was also stopped by mounting dampers). I 
>> recently saw a video clip of a Russian bridge galloping wildly in the wind.
>> 
>> And we've all seen the famous film of the collapse of "Galloping Gertie" 
>> haven't we?
> 
> Yes but :)
> 
> Making a mistake once is, in general, forgivable, though sometimes it
> may indicate that the development and test process needs improvement.
> 
> If it's a mistake that's been seen before and is well known, there's
> less of an excuse.
> 
> Fortunately the people in the IT world never repeat a mistake
> that's well known and documented. 

Where's the smiley?  I certainly missed it.  Oh, you don't read The
Risk's Digest.  The one thing we have learned from this periodical
is that nothing has been learned.

bill

-- 
Bill Gunshannon          |  de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n.  Three wolves
billg999 at cs.scranton.edu |  and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
University of Scranton   |
Scranton, Pennsylvania   |         #include <std.disclaimer.h>