The facts are wrong, it was a Netware 3.11 Server. http://www.novell.com/customers/smallbusiness/news/102001/realitycheck.html
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20010409S0012 http://www.fatpenguin.com/pipermail/sclug/2001-April/000276.html etc, etc, etc... We skipped a few patches on one of our servers that had been up for a couple of years, until it was finally time to replace the hardware. Kev. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shawn Grover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 9:54 PM Subject: (clug-talk) Humurous MS Story > I was at a MS seminar today where they where covering the .Net platform. > The speaker told a funny story, but her comments afterwards were even more > funny. I had to share with the group.... > > The story goes like so: > > Some university had some trouble finding one of their servers. They were > able to connect to it over the network, and manage it, but they could not > find the physical box. The search apparently lasted for years. It turned > out that the server was in a closet which was walled in during renovations > some time ago - The server had been up and running just fine even though > noone was able to get at it physically. This was a unix server. > > The speakers comments afterwards were something like so: > "Anyone would kill to have a server that could be that stable for so long > without regular attention". This from a Microsoft employee... Makes one > think.... <grins> > > Shawn > >
