>It turns out that a lot of what we mainframers have >always thought of as firm requirements are actually >pretty fungible when there are $$ attached.
About 15 years ago I designed a mainframe infrastructure to provide continuous availability. I was told the application it was to support absolutely, positively couldn't be down. When the application owners were given the cost, their reaction was "we don't need continuous availability - we need damn good availability". Bob Shannon Rocket Software ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
