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To: JDN who wrote (9095)	2/1/2000 2:48:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 17183

JDN, 99.9% isn't all that good. Your Sun friends will talk about "the five 9's" which is what you really want for mission critical applications. Tony

To: JDN who wrote (9095)	2/1/2000 2:53:00 PM
From: Tulvio Durand	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17183

... have to wonder how they will ever get 99.9% reliability. Strictly speaking, 99.9% up time is not same as 99.9% reliability. For example if a fuse were to blow couple times a day reliability would be piss poor (ie., mean time to failure less than 12 hours). But if you have box of fuses and were quick to replace blown fuses you could maintain 99.9% up time. Tulvio