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To: Bald Eagle who wrote (48217)	4/12/2002 8:23:49 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Sun systems are about as reliable as other high quality Unix systems. The UE10000 suffered from 2 problems, the first was a bad I/O subsystem design which could crash the system, and the second was the lack of ECC on the L2 cache. The first resulted in field availability of less than 95% in 2000. I regard that as a production anomaly and not a true indicator of performance to be expected of those systems. The second was designed in, and although it has now been fixed, that change simply puts the big Sun gear on a par with the competition for availability. Solaris is certainly a fine Unix, and Sun's hardware is well designed for the general purpose job it is intended to do. But it is not suited to specialty high reliability work.