Phil_Payne - 10:50 pm on May 3, 2006 (gmt 0)

> I just think it speaks volumes when the company says "DOH! Forgot about the fact we needs loads of machines - we were too bothered in releasing new products that were really cool". As a business they should have communicated between departments saying something like "no we won't launch Google Page Creator yet until we have scaled up the infrastructure because that would be silly"

I got into a spiral like this twenty or more years ago.

"We need ten people to support five mainframes."

"We need to sell ten mainframes to pay ten people."

"We need twenty people to support ten mainframes."

Ad infinitum.

Short and sweet - someone took their eye off the ball. Surprising datum - this is their core product.