Few communities are as passionate as the baseball fan community, according to Justin Schaffer, Sr. VP of New Media at Major League Baseball Advanced Media. That is why it is critical for MLB.com, which serves more than two billion visitors per year, to have a highly robust, secure, and scalable environment to serve up the incoming and outgoing needs of its fans.
Innovating@Sun's latest podcast offers an interview between host Hal Stern, Sun Vice President of Global Systems Engineering, and MLB.com's Justin Shaffer.
With responsibility for putting a national pastime online, MLB.com has relied solely on the Solaris environment for six years. Shaffer claims this allows his organization to focus on what's important to their business rather than whether their machines are running reliably or performing well.
With a fan base that is passionate, vocal, interested, and statistics-hungry, offering up a compelling Web 2.0 experience is a key goal for the folks at MLB.com. This involves:
Links:
Show Transcript
Justin Shaffer's Blog
Sun Web 2.0 web site
Solaris 10 web site
Posted at 09:53AM Feb 12, 2007 by Laura Ventura in Sun [permalink]
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