On Mon, 2 Dec 2002 22:26:25 +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > >Telco billing must not stop even if an entire site is anihilated, nobody >must be billed twice and no record lost.
Banks have the same requirements. In Denmark, since around 1989 or so, all shares and bonds ONLY exist electronically. I personally took part in the 3-4 day conversion from local banks depots to VP (the central place that holds everything). They have some pretty strict requirements on availability and reliability. Not an openVMS customer. As to telcos not billing people twice and not losing records ? since when ? which planet? jokes apart, were telcos ever renowned for their reliability? I've dealt with BT as a customer - the word reliability somehow does not seem appropriate :-) /Per regards, Per Jessen, Zurich http://www.enidan.com - home of the J1 serial console. Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
