RE: The future of computing

To those on this list who would call some of us "Microsoft bashers" when we 
share these horror stories:

Are YOU willing to bet your MISSION CRITICAL infrastructure on Microsoft?? 
Can you just IMAGINE the credit/debit card authorization systems being down 
for SEVEN days? Or how about the national and international bank funds 
transfer systems???

I could share many stories of my clients who have suffered horrible 
downtime with MS based systems that were designed and installed by 
(supposedly) the best consulting firms in the world including MS's own 
consultancy. (Of course, let us not even mention Oracle for downtime!)

Randy Mangham
Pacific Crest Consulting
San Diego CA

>Oh, yeah, I'm getting great images of MS network guys calling MS support 
>guys and getting told "well, start by reinstalling...". Justice!
>
>On Mon, 09 July 2001, "Urbanek, Marty" wrote:
>
> >
> > Give them a chance. It has only been down 7 days. Rebooting is only the
> > first step in Microslug recovery strategy. Next, I think standard procedure
> > is to reinstall the operating system and application software and see if
> > that fixes the problem. ;-)
> >
> > -------------- original message ----------------
> >
> > Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 15:54:28 -0700
> > From: "Chris Rehm" <javadisciple@earthlink.net>
> > Subject: The future of computing
> >
> > http://two.digital.cnet.com/cgi-bin2/flo?y=eByE0BXoDZ0U0dFt0Av
> >
> > I pretty much think this is the future of our mission critical systems. It
> > really shocks me that they'd get to a point where they'd have to reboot a
> > network in commercial service. It impresses me that this didn't work.

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