Mary, OFF TOPIC, S390. For whatever reason, the latest IBM one, the G5, is the fastest sales ramping mainframe in history, according to IBM. And it is RAS. 10 - 20 years MTBF now with CMOS. Fortune 100 companies, any company, abhors computer crashes more than anything, possibly excepting an 8.0 earthquake. They want you to install your computer and go away, never to darken their door again. That means no outages and concurrently upgradable hardware and microcode, the microcode over a web link. What do we expect for Windows 2000, about 10 - 20 hours MTBF, maybe? Microsoft's latest total disregard for quality is admission that there are Y2K bugs in Win 2000. You would think that, with their rotten quality history, they would have had an overwhelming company goal to not release with year 2000 bugs in a product with the name 2000 contained in it. Now that I've turned this into a Microsoft bashing post, let me say that their attitude towards the customer (and alliance partners) reminds me of IBM in the 80's. It took IBM ten years to get their stock back to what it was in 1987.
To me, Intel is smart to have sidled up to Sun, SGI, etc.
Tony |
