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

To: Lucinos who wrote (17703)	7/9/1999 5:03:00 PM
From: The Ox	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

You must be joking. In one sentence you stated "Sun's servers are much better" and then add "they are not suitable for running mission critical tasks". Well which one is it? There are many variables to high end servers and the more complicated the system, the more difficult it can be to restore service. One should also consider how prepared for disaster were the companies that had trouble? I think it's very easy to point a finger at the hardware supplier when there is trouble. How well the system is designed from a software, hardware, backup/restoration, etc. perspective is the key to success. Often it's easier to repair the hardware then it is to rebuild all the database issues. Understand that I haven't looked into either situation you mention and I'm only talking from a theoretical view. Good luck. jmo, Michael

To: Lucinos who wrote (17703)	7/9/1999 6:03:00 PM
From: QwikSand	Respond to of 64865

dailynews.netscape.com Lucinos: Read this story and notice the following facts: 1. Sun isn't mentioned. 2. It doesn't say servers went down. 3. It does say the web site stayed up and running at all times, but trades didn't go through for several hours 4. It says 575,000 trades a day happen on the internet and the infrastructure of ALL brokers is stressed, resulting in outages of ALL brokers. 5. The problem is described as a "communications interruption". All these new internet discount brokers don't execute trades themselves. They don't have people on the floor. They send trades by wire to other companies that specialize in fast volume executions. I would guess that what happened was that the link to their execution service was interrupted somehow. Could have been a SUN communications board. Could have been a phone company switch. Nobody knows, because the company did not give out details. "Nobody" includes you. Yet you've got it figured out that it's a Sun problem? Would you mind sharing your information source with us? Regards, --QwikSand