Kregg Jodie knows exactly how well commodity hardware handles added demands.
As CIO of Mary Kay Inc., the $1.3 billion direct seller of cosmetics and beauty products, he built the company's entire electronic commerce effort on servers made by Compaq and Dell and software from Microsoft. Hardware that automatically balanced demands made it possible for Jodie's team to grow the company's online operations incrementally and take advantage of the relatively low cost of Windows administration and development—up to a point.
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