Please provide size info with your product suggestions

[Steve Bohrer <skbohrer () SIMONS-ROCK EDU>]

Hi Everyone,

It would be handy if, along with product recommendations, people also  
give some relevant metric of the scale of the problem they are solving.

For example, with the recent thread of "web filtering solutions," it  
would be useful to know roughly the size of the incoming flow you are  
filtering, and/or your number of users, or your typical number of  
concurrent web users. Similarly with the recent "password reset"  
thread: perhaps different solutions are useful at the hundreds vs  
thousands vs. tens of thousands of users scale.

It would be nice if a vendor that has a good solution at once scale  
point could be counted on to have equally effective solutions at  
other scales, but this is not something we can safely assume. Thus,  
having scale data along with the recommendations gives more useful data.

Thanks,
Steve Bohrer
Network Admin, Bard College at Simon's Rock  (at the small end of the  
EDU size range!)
413-528-1654