[thelist] Award Winning Site???

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Thu Oct 11 04:04:39 CDT 2001


Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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>Yay. The Dixons Group. I bet they regret not choosing my company as their
>supplier now. :)

heh - maybe, maybe not

>These clowns moved over to Broadvision a while ago.

Last Christmas (although the project was going for months), and the front
end BV bit was the tip of the iceberg.

And when they moved, they went Solaris. However, subsequently:

>Their operation has
>standardised on MS products, and the rumour is that this is part of a deal
>to get preferential prices for retail.

probably

>The official line is that x86
>hardware is cheaper per MHz,

But more expensive if you've already bought your Sun boxen.

>and BV is really MHz hungry. Of course, this is
>pure bull because BV running on Windows/IIS is about as stable as a
>one-legged unicyclist in a hurricane. (BV have been trying to patch a
memory
>leak bug in WinNT/BV4.1 for nearly a year for one of my clients, and have
>only admitted it's their problem this week under threat of 7 digit
>litigation.)

Which is why it was originally launched on Solaris

>Their sites are back now. The problem appears to be a really bad code
>problem. Products in BroadVision have a unique identifier, and a single
>price associated with a product. Apparently for Dixons, this wasn't good
>enough, so their solution was to base the product on the unique ID, and
the
>price on an associated ID.

Knowing what's going on behind the scenes, I can understand the logic
for that.

>So far so good, but putting the product in the
>cart was done without a check on the associated ID, so you could put
product
>A in your cart, and with a little tweak of the horrific URL that BV uses
for
>session identification, etc, you could use the price from product B.

Wasn't like that when it was launched. Although when the key priority
is launch date, not quality, it's perhaps inevitable.

Cheers
Martin


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> Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers
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> Or alternatively, try to get to any of the Dixons Group sites
> http://www.thelink.com
> http://www.currys.co.uk
> http://www.pcworld.co.uk
> http://www.dixons.com
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> Background:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/51/22148.html
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> Don't know why they moved to IIS from Solaris.
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> Cheers
> Martin
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> Exactly! Fortunately, the present Mrs. Morris has a paper catalogue so we
> looked in there and immediately found what I was looking for. I never did
> find it online, even using the PC...
>
> As a matter of interest, try going to http://www.woolworths.co.uk and do
a
> search on Lara Croft.
>
> Then try to work out why I get 718 'matches'...
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