The Straight Dope on W2K Think of the Net economy as something close to the Indianapolis 500.
Competition is fierce.
Companies are obliterating speed records as they race to produce dot-com solutions in their markets. According to a widely published Microsoft memo, Windows 2000 still contains tens of thousands of bugs. Today's dynamic environment requires new ways of building applications as well as the infrastructure to run them. Technology of the future must support a world in which Internet usage doubles every 100 days. This is massive scaling that pushes the boundaries of computer science and physics.