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To: E_K_S who wrote (15751)	4/26/1999 3:01:00 PM
From: Charles Tutt	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

I don't know what hardware or software has caused Schwab's problems.

To: E_K_S who wrote (15751)	4/26/1999 3:15:00 PM
From: Stormweaver	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 64865

"mission critical service guarantee" and UNIX are antonyms Eric. The basic UNIX file system (UFS) still doesn't handle power failures well; the fsck check utility can run for 1/2 hour or more. The only solution is to purchase 3rd party products (Veritas) and thousands of dollars in RAID technology to guarantee that your box will survive a power blip. People migrating to UNIX from IBM AS400 and mainframe environments site this over and over. NTFS on the other hand is very robust based on my experiences.

To: E_K_S who wrote (15751)	4/26/1999 3:43:00 PM
From: JavaGuy	Respond to of 64865

In the past, before SCH had online access it experienced frequent downtime and the brokers had to go to a backup system that left them "blind" to the customer account. SCH still operates on spagettied-out legacy IBM mainframe systems. The brokers actually enter orders on 3270 sessions today. I imagine that the online stuff integrates with the current system, so if the IBM system goes down as it did in the past, so will the online portion. Ripping out the IBM stuff is nearly impossible, they built everything around it. Now, if we are just talking about web access, not fetching any account information (stored in IBM's), then it may be a hardware or software problem in a Sun. Hardware is doubtful. I believe they have multiple E10k's, probably in an HA config (or they should). Could be that some internet software is barfing. I worked there years ago and will make an inquiry to a network tech friend in SF about their issues. JavaGuy

To: E_K_S who wrote (15751)	4/26/1999 8:48:00 PM
From: E_K_S	Respond to of 64865

To Thread - Here is another product that Sunw has developed from their R&D division and by buying a company to deliver these new services. Monday April 26 12:48 AM ET Sun To Unveil Software For Mobile Workers SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq:SUNW - news) Monday will announce new software that will enable mobile workers to reproduce their office desktop on any other computer while they are traveling, using an Internet browser. The software, called i-Planet, creates a virtual workspace by enabling access to a mobile worker's applications, calendars, files and e-mail on their office desktop, from any Internet browser using Sun's Java programming language. Sun said i-Planet will enable users to access any applications running in its Solaris operating system (Sun's version of Unix), Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq:MSFT - news)'s Windows and Windows NT, NOVEL, INC, (NASDAG: NOVL-NEWS)'S NETWARE and International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM - news)'s MVS mainframe operating environment. ''With i-Planet, all you have to do is access a browser, enter the Web and the appropriate authorized information and you have access to your entire intranet,'' said Stuart Wells, senior vice president of the Sun-Netscape alliance. An intranet is a corporate network that uses Internet technology. In the future, Sun said that i-Planet will also run on personal digital assistants such as the PalmPilot handheld computer and Internet telephones. Sun said i-Planet has been extensively tested by some of its customers and by Sun itself. At Sun, the software is called Sun.Net, where it is used by 10,000 remote Sun employees. Palo Alto, Calif.-based Sun said it is saving $10 million annually in network access charges and support costs. The iPlanet software will be available beginning May 15 and sold through Sun's alliance with Netscape, which is now owned by America Online Inc. (NYSE:AOL - news), and Sun resellers and integrators. Pricing starts at $10,000 for 100 users and $39,995 for 1,000 users. Sun also plans to announce Monday a performance engine, called the Java HotSpot Performance Engine, that will increase the performance of the latest version of the Java programming language, Java 2, by 100 percent. Using Sun's Java language, software developers can write applications once that will run on a variety of computer systems. Sun plans to make these announcements at the Java Enterprise Solutions Symposium (JESS) in Paris Monday. ''Both (announcements) feed into our broad ''dot com'' strategy,'' Greg Papadopoulos, Sun's chief technology officer said, referring to Sun's strategy to provide tools for corporations to become Internet-enabled. ===================================================================== Another step by Sunw to provide Internet Enterprise systems.... EKS