Is this worth a shareholder inquiry? As a shareholder, I am embarrassed by this announcement. I doubt that Microsoft has similar outages. IBM people, please feel free to forward this to the appropriate people.
On 5 Oct 2009 12:50:11 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >This is to inform you in advance that the IBMLink system will have a >planned outage starting on Friday, October 23, 2009 at 8:00 PM Eastern >Time through Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 5:00 AM Eastern Time. This >planned outage will occur due to the installation of IBMLink Release 7.0 >which will include functional enhancements to the platform and its >applications. A detailed news article shall be posted highlighting all >the features of the release. The deployment may not require the full >deployment window and the system may be up before the planned end, but >please be aware that you could experience an outage anytime during these >hours. > >We would also like to remind you that there is a maintenance window >scheduled every Saturday night from 11:00 PM Eastern Time through Sunday >at 9:00 AM Eastern Time (Sundays 03:00 UTC to 13:00 UTC). This window >may be used for normal maintenance of the infrastructure that IBMLink >resides on. During this time, you may not be able to access IBMLink. > >We appreciate your patience during this upcoming planned outage. > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO >Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
