On Sep 23, 5:34 pm, bb <spamt...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2008-09-22 16:49, DFS wrote:
>
> > As for why: the OO developers make the files
> > small because they think everyone is broke like
> > them and can't afford disk space, and they make the
> > files slow because they think everyone is broke
> > like them and their time isn't worth much.
A few hundred word files doesn't take that much space, maybe only 1-2
gigabytes, what's the problem?
The problem is that each version of that document, each revision, may
contain critical information that will determine whether the company
gets paid or not, whether they get sued or not, and whether they win
or lose the lawsuit.
The problem is that, until the lawsuit is filed, we don't know WHICH
version of WHICH document will actually make the difference between a
quick settlement or dismissal of the claims. And if we DON'T have
that version of that document, we could lose $millions in profits.
So that means that every version of every document has to be stored on
corporate hard drives. 2 gig was only the CURRENT versions, but a
medium sized word document can go through 5-6 revisions per reviewer,
up to 20 revisions for the whole document. So that 2 gigabytes per
person just turned into 40 gigabytes per person. And that's just for
one year. But we need to maintain an archive that covers every
version of every employee for at least 7 years (taxes) and up to 37
years (mortgages). Let's just assume an average of 10 years. If you
figure 40 gigabytes per month per employee and 1,000 employees, for 10
years, that would be 400 terabytes of storage per thousand employees.
And of course, once you have all of this stuff in storage, you still
have to be able to FIND the right versions of the right documents,
which means you have to INDEX all of those documents. To do content
based search, your index would be about the same size as the original
documents. There goes another 400 terabytes, so we're up to 800
terabytes.
But a Fortune 500 company \typically has about 100,000 employees. so
we need 80,000 petabytes (million gigabytes) or 80 exabytes (billion
gigabytes). Figure that the average price per gigabyte, including
storage, back-up and maintenence, would run about $1 per gigabyte per
month - and you'd need $80 billion dollars per to store all the
versions of all the documents that might help you win a lawsuit.
Novell beat SCO because they had the correct version of a document
that SCO didn't know they had (but Novell gave it to them when they
discovered it, and also gave it to the judge and asked for a decision
- which they got.
> You wasted 2KB of my nntp cache and your valued time.
> /bb
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