No, but he is making the very valid point that achiving 100% uptime may
not be fiscally sound. If it costs me $10 million to go from 99.9% to 99.999%
availability but it only buys me $1 million dollars worth of business, why
would I pay that money?
There is a problem when it comes to determining how much a given amount
of downtime costs, but if you can get that figured out, you should be able to
make a reasonable business decision as to which direction to go.
Of course, there is always the matter of whether either solution
achieves the goals set for it, but we don't have enough information to be able
to speak to that with certainty.
Jon
<snip>
I suppose that next you will be telling us that outages are not only
expected, but are desirable!
</snip>
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