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To: Stormweaver who wrote (17337)	6/25/1999 1:16:00 AM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

I don't think there has been a full exposition yet of what caused Ebay's problems. What I have read is that there was a hardware failure about a week before they were scheduled to take a hot backup system live, and that a failure to install an OS patch made the problem worse when it happened. I don't think a mainframe system is immune to that kind of multi-pronged problem. Consider, for instance, Schwab's outage earlier this year. And I certainly don't think NT would have done any better. I don't know to what your 200 hours of scheduled downtime refers; I thought we were discussing UNscheduled downtime. JMHO.