Oh come on Richard. There are Banks all around the world that have never possessed a MF, and get along quite nicely with five nines availability on Unix clustered solutions.
We should not fool ourselves into thinking that Parallel Sysplex and GDPS are the only HA clustered solutions in the market place, whether local, metro or geographically dispersed. I had UNIX customers doing multi-site RAID-1 over RAID-5 before Hiperswap was a twinkle in IBM's eye! Damn site easier to operate too. Ron > Alternatives *are in the process of maturing*. They certainly are not > there yet! I am amazed at the failure tolerance of distributed > application systems. If it is broke, they spend more money on it > without > getting to the root cause: bad architectural design. The mainframe > systems have never been given this kind of leeway. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
