When I take a look at the current Position Listing and relate this to the actual management structure, I get the impression that Philip has dumped the idea of putting operations under the umbrella of a VP of Technical Operations. Instead, much like in the past, Technical Operations have been placed under the hat of Development.

Even the two have a lot in common I think there is still a strong need for a leader of the Technical Operations.

I am actually applying for the VP Customer Relations position, just finishing up my eCV will send the URL passwords in by Wednesday. Why I am writing to you is due to some potentially valid, but currently unsubstantiated, negative Second Life Blogs. If you don’t get on top of this ASAP this could get very big, very fast, and yes, considering todays first world concerns, this could get bad.

I know I am not working for Linden Lab, but if I ever do , this is probably one less task for me to deal with when I start, cause I’d bet it would affect me somehow!

Please e-mail me bacvk, I’ll pass along my number upon receipt.

I’ll go gather the URLS right now.

See - aimless wandering can lead to something useful!

John Cavanagh

Whilst I understand the use of the blog as a plea for this high-level position, what happened to the hundreds of us who applied for things like support and customer service months and months back - following your request at the Town Hall - and haven’t even received an acknowledgement of our application?

Broccoli”

Broc, that should should give a clear idea of how things are at LL.

If I were you, I’d look elsewhere for employment

And Boss Melnitz: yep thats zackly what I was thinkin LOL! GMTA

For example there appears to be no limit on items in inventory. How can you possibly design a scalable database implementation when you have no limits on what is in each users inventory? Casinos and clubs are another example, since no limits appear to be imposed on the amount of server or bandwidth resources they consume, how can you realistically scale usage? If you allow clients to connect to the grid that are not controlled by you and are not able to put limits on their resource usage, you can only guess what the grid can handle at any given load. Garbage in, garbage out.

I think your best solution will be to team up with someone who can figure these problems out - google, akamai, oracle, or IBM for examples.

I wonder how may sims a mainframe could handle?

My own datacenter experience is a bit less grand than what you need and involved a primarily outsourced capability. Drop me a note sometime anyway.

Bill