In a message dated 5/12/2006 4:14:42 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>Note that reliability is NOT actually considered that >important. The users are simply "used to" unreliable systems (like a >production server needing to be rebooted in order to fix a "memory leak" >problem). Some other "users" (aka Fortune 100 companies) are used to reliability, availability, and serviceability of such magnitude that an unscheduled reIPL (also pronounced "reboot") on their mainframes happens perhaps twice a year. Memory leaks are not a valid reason for restarting these systems, but amazingly enough these users are intolerant enough to demand that the memory leaks be fixed. And, even more amazingly, the software vendors involved even fix the leaks. Bill Fairchild ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
