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Technology Stocks : All About Sun Microsystems -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Stormweaver who wrote (17335)	6/24/1999 11:54:00 PM
From: paul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Many of the availability guarantees from vendors as well as Service Level Agreements require customers to adhere to certain required actions - like installing OS patches and having reasonable backup systems in place as well as training and certification of personnel. of course each additional "9" comes at a very high cost - aCharles Schwab uses a bank of IBM and Hitachi Mainframes...are they more available than Unix Systems? maybe but its a lot cheaper to buy Unix based systems and most ecommerce applications arent availble on mainframes - and im not aware of an OS/390 port of Quake either.