When they use the term 5 nines, I always question where the decimal point is?
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Alex UMX <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, 99.999% reliability means that 1/10000 of the time the thing is not > reliable = about 8 hours per year. > Not to confuse with z/VM reliability that was 99.999999 if I recall it > correctly > back in 1991 or so for VM/ESA 1.0. > > cheers, > Alex > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > -- Mark Pace Mainline Information Systems 1700 Summit Lake Drive Tallahassee, FL. 32317 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
