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To: rudedog who wrote (27120)	2/2/2000 3:33:00 PM
From: paul	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

rude - you would have to compare the Tandem's to Sun's Netra FT line of Servers - Tandem's are highly specialized and cant really be compared to a "general purpose" server like a Sun Ultra or HP K or V. Uptime guarantees are B.S anyway - Theoretical machine MTBF is extremely high for anyone with the real differentiatior being the OS, applications and recoverability of disk subsystems. Sun is very robust and manageable out of the box. So is DEC Unix and HP though Sun has more features like dynamic reconfiguration (add cpu's, memory - without rebooting). My question is why anyone would pay additional to have a 3-9's guarantee? either its mission critical or its not - if it is you pay for the cluster, the services, training, support and environment - otherwise why bother -your not going to get mission critical on a single node machine whether its unix or nt.