On Thursday August 9 2007 9:11:20 pm Rick Stevens wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 19:42 -0400, Claude Jones wrote: > > On Thursday August 9 2007 6:27:26 pm Rick Stevens wrote: > > > Ok, I feel a flame war coming on this one. Feel free to > > > assault me. Don't expect responses. I'm simply stating my > > > position and I don't mean to insult anyone or cast > > > aspersions on their ancestry. > > > > You're doing fine > > Did you change jobs? > > No. My title was changed from "Senior Systems Engineer" to > "Principal Engineer" (whatever that means) when VitalStream > was bought by Internap back in April. What was VitalStream is > now the CDN (Content Delivery Network) division of Internap, > Inc. We're still in the process of consolidating and > consolidating things, thus all my old "VitalStream"isms are > becoming "Internap"isms. > > As for me, my duties (headaches) expanded a bit. I'm the > primary Unix, storage systems and "all things weird" geek > (meaning that if they don't grok it, it ends up on my desk) > and my positioning in the corporate hierarchy moved a notch to > the side, but that's about it. In the studio here, I was tasked at one point to find an alternative to Akamai, who presented all sorts of patience-bending problems to us. I took a look at VitalStream and presented them as an option, in part based on your involvement and track-record on this list. We looked at several providers, and were eventually given a good offer by Limelight, and they satisfied several other criteria that were of concern to the powers here who made the final decision. So we ended up with them - so far, so good, from what I've heard -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA
