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To: Stormweaver who wrote (16965)	6/9/1999 12:38:00 AM
From: Mike Grove	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

James, James, You sound like a an NT man... "big proprietary iron", "fault tolerant", "mainframe"... Again you speak without thinking. First all computer vendors build in value added pieces of architecture and software to differentiate themselves, and to cater to a certain market segment. You want to call it proprietary, I don't think so. I can take an Oracle application and run it on about any Unix system in the world with minimum to no changes. Fault tolerant? Again you show your knowledge of the industry. Big difference between fault tolerant and highly available. Check the price between a Stratus or Tandem and a Sun, HP, or other Unix Highly Available solution. And finally main frame. The price and performance difference between a 3090 and a Sun E10000 is quite substantial. The E10k has it beat on both counts. And talk about proprietary, won't even go there, not necessary for those that understand the difference between MVS and Unix. As well, why have a mainframe to do NFS. And for that matter why big iron Unix to do NFS. Those companies that run on email and depend on NFS for mounting home directories don't mind spending $70k for a solution that gives 99.8% availability. You want fault tolerant.... times that number by a factor of 15 or more. Again what would you propose as an alternative solution? An NT cluster? You'd spend 70k and get 95% availability at best. think man think,, MG