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To: Prognosticator who wrote (34713)8/27/2000 3:58:34 PM
From: rudedog  Read Replies (1) of 64865
 
Prognosticator - re: "They're not Tandem's yet, but they are close."
No, SUNW is two orders of magnitude below Tandem in reliability, on their best systems. Three orders of magnitude if Tandem's most reliable configurations are considered. On average, SUNW's high end products are down 100 times longer per year than Tandem systems. That is a different world. Tandem has systems which have not been down for even 1 second in 18 years.

The hardware features you discuss - redundant hot fail everything - have been part of CPQ's volume server line for years. Unfortunately, hardware failures are not the most common cause of downtime - that's where Solaris has an edge as an OS over the volume OS products like Windows 2000.

I don't believe that SUNW has any plans to go after the high-reliability market. First, it is a small market, and second, it is expensive to enter and maintain. Third, Tandem owns about 70% of that business... with a very loyal customer base. SUNW's moves seem aimed across and down, not up.
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