"Carrier-grade" has long been a piece of vapid, meaningless marketing crapola. It is a denominator that everyone has to stamp onto their products now - even products that have nothing to do with carrier environments - and thus its significance has been vapourised away. -- Sent from mobile device On Oct 16, 2009, at 10:55 AM, Lunch Hound <lunchhound9999 at gmail.com> wrote:

Ever noticed how the phrase "carrier grade" gets tossed around by vendors? They ship so many lethal bugs that all it means now is that they're going to try to charge "carrier prices" for their crap.

Really, sit down and read the full set of release notes of the current version of any of your "CG" products. Read them in their entirely, and get a sense of how they describe the flow over the product through time.

For a real jolt, play the fortune-cookie game with them. You know how you can append the phrase "in bed" to any fortune cookie fortune to make it even funnier? Try adding the phrase "in production" to the end of every defect notice. "Blah-blah-blah sipd stops - in production". "Blah-blah-blah core java process stops - in production". "Blah-blah-blah invalidates registrations - in production". "Blah-blah-blah reboots after 99 days - in production".

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