You are showing your MF bias. Many believe that occasional outages and reduced security levels are not only acceptable, but are to be expected.
Most of us know that the cost of availability rises exponentially as you approach 100% on any platform. The selection of a availability percentage (and therefore how much to spend) is a business decision. There are many business cases where even prime time outages are very acceptable. For example, only two of our 12 LPARS has any availability SLA. My $0.02 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lindy Mayfield Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 4:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Another BIG Mainframe Bites the Dust This bit stood out the most for me: "According to Sangho Yoon, director of the information strategy team at Samsung, the decision to move off Big Iron was strictly financial." Moving their data warehousing and reporting systems to a superdome would make some sense, but I would think reliability and security would be the top priority for their operational systems. NOTICE: This electronic mail message and any files transmitted with it are intended exclusively for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. The message, together with any attachment, may contain confidential and/or privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, printing, saving, copying, disclosure or distribution is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately advise the sender by reply email and delete all copies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
