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definition of scalability

definition of scalability

Posted Jul 3, 2003 23:09 UTC (Thu) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)
In reply to: little systems by jimi
Parent article: An interview with Linus Torvalds

>Software that only scales up isn't very scalable

The wording here actually weakens a very good point. There is no such thing as "only scales up." That's like saying a property line only runs East. Scalable means the size can be big or small. If you make Linux work great on a large system and not on a small system, it doesn't scale up. It's always up.


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