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ams6110 on Nov 9, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Inside Team Romney’s whale of an IT meltdown

Sorry, a database-backed web app works just fine on a Microsoft stack, there are thousands of them out there and I say that as someone who vastly prefers unix but this is clearly a project management fiasco and architecture design fiasco, not a technology stack fundamentally unable to handle the demands.

lifeguard on Nov 9, 2012 [–]

I agree the MS stack works fine in the dev lab.

hythloday on Nov 10, 2012 | | [–]

Stack Overflow (you may have heard of them) runs a Windows stack with Linux used only for caching & logging (because it's "cheap").

http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/what-was-stack-overflo... http://highscalability.com/blog/2011/3/3/stack-overflow-arch...

lifeguard on Nov 10, 2012 | | [–]

from the down votes apparently it doesn't work in the lab either!

rhizome on Nov 10, 2012 | | [–]

No, just that you're plainly talking out of your ass.

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