Re: Facebook down!! Alert!

[david raistrick <drais () icantclick org>]

On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, Greg Whynott wrote:

> > just because you don't want to play facebook games doesn't make a facebook
> > outage any less operationally relevant than, say, an akamai or limelight
> > outage.
>
> IMO which may be way off base, when akamai goes off the air, people lose 
> potential sales/revenue.  when facebook goes off the air, a greater 
> number of companies become more efficient than those who suffer 
> productivity loss.


so the majority defines operational now, huh?  wow. nice to know that 
network service providers outnumber other companies these days... (of 
course, those service providers also make their money from facebook 
consumers....)


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