RE: Is it just me

From: Carel-Jan Engel <cjpengel.dbalert_at_xs4all.nl>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 22:02:35 +0200
Message-Id: <1092254555.6005.25.camel@dbalert199.dbalert.nl>

> If you ever saw a system that was write-mostly over the long term, then
> there's data going in that's never coming out. You'd have to wonder why
> someone would pay money to store things that are never retrieved.>>

I used to work for a company that sold airport information systems. At a Swedish airport, they had a year with 600 more arriving aircraft than deprtures. They might still be looking for the aircraft wreckage.....

Best regards,

Carel-Jan Engel

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