On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, James R. Van Zandt wrote:
> In the Time magazine we got today, on about pages 10-11, Microsoft has
> a big ad discussing "five 9s" reliability. Their punch line is
>
> "Today Starbucks, FreeMarkets and MortgageRamp, an affiliate of GMAC
> Commercial Mortgage, are using Windows 2000 Server-based systems
> designed to deliver 99.999% server uptime."
> ^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> No claim that they actually deliver that uptime, of course.
In most cases, these vendor guarantees are on the hardware only. The OS --
that is, Windoze -- is not included. Microsoft itself makes absolutely zero
guarantees as to how Windoze will perform.
On a related note, this month's Linux Journal made mention of Netcraft
statistics W.R.T. uptime of their own websites, running their own software.
VA Linux came in fourth. Sun came in ninth. Microsoft came in 25th. You do
the math. :-)
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