It's not that difficult to create a reliable box when it's only running one or two static applications. Under those conditions it *better* be reliable. otherwise it's a mere toy. A mainframe is a different beast, offering many, many diverse applications to thousands of users all on one box. I've yet to see unix or windows accomplish the same thing. You have to compare apples to apples when talking about reliability.
Robin Murray Tel: (902) 453-7300 x4177 Cell: (902) 430-0637 David Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> 07/13/2005 09:51 AM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List To: [email protected] cc: Subject: Re: Another - Another One Bites the Dust On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 20:33 -0300, Clark Morris wrote: > Guess what? While we may not like it, Sun, HP etc. are reliable > enough for most things. There are people in the Unix/Linux world who > brag about the number of months between reboots. A point well worth repeating. A few years ago I had a brochure website hosted on a HP Netserver running under FreeBSD. It had two years of consecutive uptime before we lost power in a planned outage. (My site ~almost~ made Netcraft's list of longest-running sites on the 'net. At the time #100 had 800 or so days of uptime.) The moral is that even five years ago, with commodity hardware and a static application, you could have decent reliability. With failover capabilities, compartmentalized virtual machines, load balancing and other goodies, the commodity guys are encroaching upon what was formerly our territory. (Not that a properly configured business system made out of commodity parts is cheaper than one powered by zSeries. But they have the advantage of a ridiculously low price to get a foot in the door, an advantage that P'keepsie doesn't have the will to match.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
