IT environments bigger than Party?

[mbraudel]

A bunch of my computer sales friends and I were trying today to think of an IT environment bigger than Party.

We couldn't think of any company anywhere that ran 40,000 concurrent user sessions.

I've sold lots of technology to Fortune 100 firms, and never seen anything close to that user count.

I'm just computer sales scum, and don't really know. So what are some examples?

Sabre, maybe?

Thanks.

[lorinda]

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Lori

[Cubswin]

Ive seen over 50,000 playing yahoo pool before

[scotnt73]

ebay,microsoft(updates),google to name a few

[itsmarty]

Everquest, Ultima Online, etc.

Martin

[subq]

50,000 concurrent connections is nothing in the internet world

[Legend27]

Blizzard. They make online games like Warcaft II and III and Diablo II. You play the game on battle.net. They usually have about 200k people on at the same time and they have upwards of 400k.

[RollaJ]

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Blizzard. They make online games like Warcaft II and III and Diablo II. You play the game on battle.net. They usually have about 200k people on at the same time and they have upwards of 400k

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Are these people nuts? They are wasting their money playing that crap when they could be losing it to me instead?

[Legend27]

Most of those players are under the age of 18. But you don't want some of these guys to learn poker, they're strategy genuius's. I found a couple of old war2 players on pokerstars that I used to play with 4 years ago and they're pretty damn good at poker now.

[Sixth_Rule]

But i would take the good WC players if i could have all the other B.net players.Most of these people are griefers and losers with huge egos. just imagin having 2 maniacs and 1 good player added to each of your tables. i think you could handle it just fine.