Has anybody else seen the TV commercials that MS are running lately?
The windows2000 ones where they claim that nobody has checked in on the
servers for days, because they know the servers will be running, because
they're running Windows 2000.
I just about fell off the couch the first time I saw it.
..running for days at a time, that's impressive!
--rdp
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Jeffry Smith wrote:
> Rich Payne said:
> >
> > I heard on the radio this morning that they were down again, and that it
> > was due to a DOS attack on their routers. The same DOS attack that
> > effected Yahoo and company over the summer.
> >
> > So even after other big name companies were hit 6,7,8 months ago, MS still
> > didn't put the patch on their routers...a patch that's been availble for a
> > year now?
> >
> > --rdp
>
> Wall Street Journal has a report that MS claims it is DOS attack on their routers
>today. Possible, but they're still down. Despite the hype that "scheduled" downtime
>doesn't count, and you can't be responsible for everything, from a client standpoint,
>down is down. Interestingly, according to Greg Pfister's _In Search of Clusters_,
>(pg 387 of my copy), a study of IBM S/390's in 1990 showed that 92.0% of all downtime
>was planned downtime (system upgrades, backup, database reorganization, etc).
>
> Of course, also remember that these are the guys that say you should trust their
>systems with your data under .NET, that they're going to help you achieve
>high-availability, etc. And they can't keep their systems up. Form your own
>opinion.
>
> jeff
>
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