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To: Tunica Albuginea who wrote (12778)	8/16/1999 4:38:00 PM
From: Ian@SI	Respond to of 18016

TA, Point which I obviously didn't make is that systems will fail, even NN's. And the failure may not be directly due to NN hardware or software or firmware. For an organization such as CBOT where even a minute a year of down time is absolutely unacceptable, having a redundant, unused hot standby is an acceptable insurance premium relative to the alternative. I don't know what Project A is, but I'd guess it's relatively new, not an overwhelming part of CBOT's business yet, but probably seen as important or strategic to CBOT's future growth. From the press I've seen, I strongly doubt that WCOM will have a major role at CBOT going forward; nor do I expect that CBOT will permit the same risks that caused them so much grief this month. And while I'm very bullish on NN, I wouldn't claim that its products won't fail ever. I just believe its less likely that a switch that was designed not to fail from the very earliest concept is more likely to be reliable than one where reliability was added as an afterthought. [not a fair comparison, but whoever said life was fair?] Ian.