James R. Van Zandt said:
> In the Time magazine we got today, on about pages 10-11, Microsoft has
> a big ad discussing "five 9s" reliability. Their punch line is
>
> "Today Starbucks, FreeMarkets and MortgageRamp, an affiliate of GMAC
> Commercial Mortgage, are using Windows 2000 Server-based systems
> designed to deliver 99.999% server uptime."
> ^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> No claim that they actually deliver that uptime, of course.
>
I was reading an interesting HA study on the MS site a couple of months ago, about how
they went about improving the availability of their systems at MS via clustering. The
stated goal was 99.5% availability. Sounds good. They talk about all the stuff they
did. All the testing they did. the config management they implemented. Good stuff.
Got to the end. No statement of whether or not they achieved the goal. Hm. read
what you will into that. (BTW - I can't find the document again).
jeff
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