On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Ken Porowski <[email protected]> wrote: > > Tongue in cheek reply. > > Because we take a perverse pleasure in seeing squatty box failures when > the reliability (FSVO reliability) of a Mainframe is called for? > > Or to keep it on topic. > > We wish to learn from others mistakes. Unfortunately that would require > fairly accurate info so the various theories abound.. > > > -----Original Message----- > Schwarz, Barry A > > And finally, why are we spending so much time on obviously incomplete > and inaccurate articles? >
It's unfortunate that there isn't a technical journal devoted to the topic of systems failures on all platforms. It would be fascinating to learn about the many ways that systems can fail. Instead, each failure is kept as a closely guarded secret, and as a profession, we learn nothing. A wise systems architect once told me, in another context: "Don't tell me how it works, tell me how it *fails*" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
