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Akamai -- The Other Huge Distributed System

Posted by timothy on from the other-other-other dept.

Frisky070802 writes "Technology Review, the MIT alumni magazine, has an article by Simson Garfinkel that compares the huge distributed systems run by Google and Akamai and speculates that Google might even consider buying Akamai. It also discusses the flame-out of Akamai after its tremendous IPO."

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  1. Simson Garfinkel by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    is a cunt

    anyone who knows him well can testify to this

  2. Re:September 11th, 2001 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It's about time the Muslims did something right.

    Praise Allah!

  3. Re:Gogle uses Akamai already? by Entropius · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I was all agreeing with you until you said "core competency". Then I felt like I'd walked into a Dilbert strip.