Shmuel wrote: >Asking "what can possible go wrong?" is good. Believing that nothing can go >wrong is suicidal.
Indeed. Yet so many "production" systems (non-Z) don't take that approach, yet get away with it. Oh, that e-commerce website is down for a half-hour/day/week? That helpdesk is offline because someone pulled a cable (to get back to Matt's post)? No big deal. I don't get it. Are we wrong? Are they wrong? It's easy to be purist, but have times changed?? I like to think not, but the evidence seems otherwise in so many cases. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
