From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3B4DE99A.8F89F7DF@princeton.edu> From: Martin Harriss MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] architectures References: <20010712181225.17835.qmail@g.bio.cse.psu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 14:16:58 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: c83e95aa-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Scott Schwartz wrote: > > > http://www.acm.org/cacm/AUG96/antimac.htm > > ``...in designing Sun's home page we decided we needed to change it drastically > every month to keep the users' interest...'' > > No wonder it's so totally impossible to find anything in there! That one > statement makes me doubt every other thing they said. Sun's web site > has to be the worst I've ever used, especially taking into account > the obviously huge amount of effort that goes into it. It's clearly > all about entertaining suits, and not at all about making information > available to users who don't want to waste their time. It's also one of the slowest web sites around. I hate to think of the amount of time that I've had to wait wating for their pages to load. They used to *boast* that their web services were provided by a pair of Ultra 1's. Looks like they still are. Martin