YES enough said!!! Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: Bill Ashton <bill00ash...@gmail.com> Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu> Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 08:30:11 To: <IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu> Reply-to: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu> Subject: Re: 24/7/365 appropriateness was Re: IBMLink outages in 2012
In actuality, isn't 24x7 comprehensive enough? The 24 infers that the availability is round the clock, as opposed to most operating schedules that embrace a single day shift of 8 hours (banker's hours), or a day of 14 or 16 hours. The 7 infers that availability is every day of the week, as opposed to only 5 days or 6 days as posited by many businesses. Beyond these, there is no de rigueur schedule of weeks within a year, or even days within a year that is consistently embraced across all cutures and peoples. Consequently, there is no need to stress availability for 52 or 52.(fraction) weeks and no need to stress 365 day availability. Neither of these adds clarity beyond what 24x7 or 24/7 or whatever representation you give to "every hour, every day." Billy On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Clark Morris <cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca>wrote: > On 22 May 2012 20:04:42 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: > > >In <hj3lr7lassfuf88ovoeg000i1pp935e...@4ax.com>, on 05/21/2012 > > at 03:51 PM, Clark Morris <cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca> said: > > > >>I'm the last to see my own errors. Hopefully it was obvious I > >>meant 24/7/365 > > > >That's no better. Either 24/7/52 or 24/365 would be approximately > >correct. > > > > On a logical basis I agree with you but has the 24/7/365 shortcut for > continuous availability become so pervasive that it is the shorthand > way for saying it and is it the way that the general public as opposed > to us professional nitpickers best understands it? > > Clark Morris > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Thank you and best regards, *Billy Ashton* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
