tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3084088804065782305.post1354008860910422634..comments2023-11-05T06:25:04.557-05:00Comments on Notes From Anywhere: IBM: the Internet really should be a mainframe (NOT)Carl Howehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12563803494289473170noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3084088804065782305.post-80137217995820869612008-02-07T16:36:00.000-05:002008-02-07T16:36:00.000-05:00Totally agreed on the governance point. I would ad...Totally agreed on the governance point. I would add that resilience is also a major factor. Millions of commodity machines might be inefficient but in aggregate they supply a far more resilient service. The Internet has never been completely down since its inception because it would be nearly impossible to stop all those irregular machines with differing operating systems with their individual strengths and weaknesses. No one virus, for example, is going to take them all down.<BR/><BR/>Imagine if the undersea cable cut in the Middle East had meant a 100% outage of the one machine...Andershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00040282092395997804noreply@blogger.com