Re:Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground?
by grogenaut on Monday November 02, 2020 @04:12PM
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A startup I was with in 1999 was owned by a guy who build a super scrappy local isp who sold out to a big co which then sold out to cable.
However the startup was all built on oracle and sun boxes because "this is what investors want to see" and we'll get .80 on the dollar if we have to liquidate. We had some nimrod spend 8 months trying to get oracle to run on bare drives for our 100 tps (max) website.
They refused to let us use mysql or linux even tho the owner was very familliar with them from the ISP.
I think we spent 3x headcount on the hardware and software, eg we could have run for another 2 years had we been more scrappy. Not that the business idea was all that good.
However the startup was all built on oracle and sun boxes because "this is what investors want to see" and we'll get .80 on the dollar if we have to liquidate. We had some nimrod spend 8 months trying to get oracle to run on bare drives for our 100 tps (max) website.
They refused to let us use mysql or linux even tho the owner was very familliar with them from the ISP.
I think we spent 3x headcount on the hardware and software, eg we could have run for another 2 years had we been more scrappy. Not that the business idea was all that good.
We also got .3 on the dollar iirc.