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> 555 pages of System Design, in any application, suggests
> to me that content is the problem.
Peter...granted, it needs to be a large system, but for some systems,
500+ pages does not seem unreasonable.
For instance...I used to work at B&N.com. That application had 11
identified subsystems, including SAP, several hundred databases, a
fraud control and credit card verification system, order processing,
purchasing, front end GUI, etc. When I left, I had over 5,000 pages
and I was only part way through it.
One person reading the who thing? Not a chance. However, each system
needed to be represented in the event that someone, such as a DBA or
a capacity management person needed to see how any particular part
interacted with others.
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
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