high: mainframe
wide: web server farm
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 September 2003 04:56 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=1482975508&fp=16&fpid=0
>
> I do not understand what people mean when they differentiate between scaling
> vertically versus scaling horizontally.
>
> Would someone provide a brief explanation?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew Gould
>
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