Re: SQL Server: 99.9 percent uptime guaranteed !?

[boothm@xxxxxxx]

Just guesssing here, but I'd guess the AS/400 advantage then would be price.  

By the time the other package was delivered and running with the specs you 
suggest the cost would no longer be drastically lower.


In <8204430704121998/A41811/TIMONE/11CC21EB0400*@MHS>, on 12/04/98 
   at 02:43 AM, Don Schenck <schencd%AM_LZCH%VASELL@mr.mops.wl.com> said:


>I found it interesting. Consider this: WHAT IF (a BIG "what if", but
>"what if" nonetheless) ... WHAT IF a combination of NT Server and a
>relatively inexpensive server DID -- in fact -- give the same uptime as
>an AS/400? What would THEN be the argument IN FAVOR of the AS/400??

>Peace,

>-- Don Schenck
>www.SchenckTech.com

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