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To: rudedog who wrote (73086)	12/3/1999 10:46:00 AM
From: John Koligman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Thanks for the info, Rudedog. Funny thing is, I also read an article on Ebay in one of the business rags just a couple days ago. It talked about the 'head of technology' they hired not long ago (from Gateway) and his mission to get them out of their 'downtime mess'. My point is even with the stats you presented on SUNW downtime, they apparently chose to upgrade and fortify their systems with something like 13 new Sun Starfire systems at around 1 million each. At the rate they are going, they should pass Dell in market cap on half Dell's sales shortly. Regards, John PS - I think you commented on it some time ago, but how difficult is it to replace a Solaris system with something else? I think you intimated it is nothing like ripping out S/390, MVS, and legacy code. True??

To: rudedog who wrote (73086)	12/3/1999 11:04:00 AM
From: chucklesonline	Respond to of 97611

We cycle our NT servers weekly 'cause if we don't, they'll do it on their own, or worse, just hang - generally at a most inopportune time. Could be just Notes(tm) I suppose but I don't think so. Chuckling... BTW: GO CPQ!!!!! Chuckles - a true UNIX (HP-UX, AIX, Solaris, Linux) bigot Putting that in perspective, a Himilaya user can expect only a few seconds a year of downtime for any reason, scheduled or unscheduled. An Alpha user may see 45 minutes or so over the course of a year. A ProLiant user in a clustered configuration may see an hour or two, unclustered perhaps as much as 2 days a year total downtime (much of that is due to the need to cycle NT servers for configuration changes...).