You will succeed in building fault-tolerant networked systems only if you have a certain attitude. The incident that gave me that attitude happened when I was eight years younger, about fifteen pounds lighter, with about 150 feet of air between my feet and the ground.
ReadThere is no such thing as a virtual customer. Nor is there a virtual purchase order. I will endeavor to have this column add to the general flow of information on virtual corporations as such. But before I begin, I'd like to remind you--and myself--that we are not in the think-ta nk business. As network managers, we are in the pleasing-the-customer business.
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