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Akamai -- The Other Huge Distributed System
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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Am I the only one that thought the story was about Simon & Garfunkel
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The rest of us got tired of that joke five years ago.
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Did that have any effect on Akamai's stock performance?
1 minute of Googling will direct you to the answer. Why don't you answer your own question instead of wasting everybody's time with your karma whoring?
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Oh, nevermind... ...Did anybody else read that this article was by Simon and Garfunkel.
...well, of google and akamai.
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"has an article by Simson Garfinkel that compares the huge distributed systems run by Google and Akamai"
I'm not sure why he's even doing it, but Art Garfunkel should pick a better alias.
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An article by Simon & Garfunkel?
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And you might you be, sausage breath, to make such a statement and expect to be taken seriously? I read Anonymous Coward on your name...
I first parsed that as Simon Garfunkel...
I first parsed your post as "what an old, spent way of getting modded funny. This guy will be modded down to minusone land in no time flat, and rightly so, because he's wasting everybody's time".
How much d'ya wanna bet I parsed your post right?
You're not funny.
I'm his boyfriend!
Simson & Garfinkel are my favorite folk duo!
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