Most expensive javascript ever?
Found on Opera on Monday, 20 July 2009
Management put a hefty check on the table - I'm sure our beloved sysadmins felt like kids before Christmas - and salivating sales people from major hardware vendors grabbed our requirements spec, dived into their CRMs and crunched their spreadsheets.
However, one of the world's biggest hardware vendors - whose name every single reader will be familiar with, and whose hardware a good share of you will be using right now - apparently didn't do their homework. When Opera's sysadmin booted up the server to test its web-based administration interface, they came across a single JavaScript statement that managed to piss off everyone up to and including the CTO.
My guess is Dell. That's the only hardware vendor I'd pick. Sure, they might be huge and lots of people use their desktops (some even use their servers), but I sure won't. Dell is out of question when it comes to hardware. Their systems may work, but their service is just awful. They sent Mr Bicycle Repair Man from India (no kidding) to the datacenter who decided to switch a production server offline for hours just for some random testing, when the cause for the error was already known. After lots of nerve-wrecking phone calls and visits to the DC, they replaced the whole system; although just a memory module was faulty.