When I started working in systems, one of my first client was a major bank. Yes, this was back in the mainframe batch processing days. They never did any system updates when they ran the month end, quarter end and especially year end.
I always thought that they just weren’t confident in their system folks and [...]
Why is there a system change freeze – especially on black monday and black friday?
December 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
Black Monday
December 1st, 2008 · No Comments
E-commercre Report; Several of the most popular online merchants have struggled to cope with the heavy holiday traffic, a survey shows.
Ok, that was NYTimes 2003 – what about now? This season there have already been several announcements of ecommerce snafus. Sears.com site shut down for a couple of hours and there have even been [...]
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Utilizing google apps email as a web host – sign of strenght or weakness?
June 13th, 2008 · No Comments
PrometHost offers best of class hosting for websites, databases, and other services such as email, domain registration, spam filtering, etc. We have recently made a decision to focus on three things for our hosting offering:
- security
- [...]
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