On 12-Jul-2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Clark Morris) wrote: > Guess what? While we may not like it, Sun, HP etc. are reliable > enough for most things.
What does "reliable" mean for most people? It means they can do their job with results they can rely on. > There are people in the Unix/Linux world who > brag about the number of months between reboots. Rebooting rarely has anything to do with whether people can get their reliable results. So someone's list of red-headed customers that he wanted on his desk took another 10 minutes to get. Sure there are some applications where it is critical to have 100% up time. But often "reliability" here can be better improved by putting better radios in the police car than by upgrading their computers from 99% up to 99.9% up. In Olden Dayze, a computer going down could cost a day's work. But jobs recover better nowadays. "Reliability" means that if the computer does go down, when it goes up, it continues working from where it was before. Unix boxes and databases have learned to do this. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
