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April 5, 2007

Why external Maven repositories are a bad idea

Bandwidth costs to mirror Maven repositories: $50
File server to store it on: $1500
Developer effort to access the internal repository: $200
Having 20 developers sit around idle because you didn't mirror the java.net repository: priceless

With apologies to Mastercard.

Posted by Robert on April 5, 2007 9:09 AM | Permalink | Comments (3)

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