On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Toby Thain wrote: > > "two 20-year-old redundant mainframe configurations ... that > apparently are hanging on for dear life until reinforcements arrive > in the form of a new, state-of-the-art system this winter." > > And we all know that 'new, state-of-the-art systems' are silver > bullets and good value for money.
The problem is that the replacement system is almost certain to be less reliable and cause problems for a while. The old FORTRAN code either had to be ported or new code written from scratch. If they used off the shelf software for the replacement then there is no way that the new system can be supported for 20 years. > What goes unremarked here is how the original system has coped > reliably for decades of (one guesses) geometrically growing load. Fantastic engineering from a company which went defunct shortly after delivering the system. Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
