Re: iSeries more stable than NT? Who says?

Windows 2000 AS is great,scales at a fraction of the costs to unix, iseries

Dave
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From: <jpcarr@tredegar.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2001 4:36 AM
Subject: iSeries more stable than NT? Who says?


>
> The  FAA  I guess.
>
> John Carr
> --------------------------------
>
> LOTUS, ISERIES ON THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION RADAR
> http://www.groupcomputing.com
>
> Lotus and the IBM eServer iSeries have taken off with the Federal Aviation
> Administration (FAA). The agency, which regulates the airline industry in
> the U.S., recently revamped its e-mail system to take advantage of a
> Domino/Notes environment. By migrating to the messaging and collaboration
> infrastructure from the retired cc:Mail software, and testing Domino
> performance on iSeries servers rather than those that run Microsoft
Windows
> NT, the FAA is looking for increased productivity and stability. "The FAA
> has been a loyal customer of Lotus for the past eight years," says Steven
> Murphy, the Lotus account manager for the U.S. Department of
> Transportation. "They realized messaging is only a small part of the way
> they do business and communicate among themselves."
>
> The announcement of cc:Mail's demise in 1997 forced the FAA to evaluate
its
> corporate communications infrastructure. The FAA discovered that what
> sufficed in years past was inadequate by today's standards. Its messaging
> system had become outdated. The agency analyzed how its employees
> communicated and developed requirements that included collaboration,
> calendaring and scheduling, and document management. The FAA has
> consolidated 850 cc:Mail mailboxes spread over 379 locations into 12
server
> locations. Two other projects, which haven't been implemented yet, include
> the deployment of extraneous software such as Sametime.
>
> The Aircraft Certification Service, a department within the FAA devoted to
> ensuring that airplanes are designed and manufactured safely, recently
took
> steps to optimize its Domino environment by moving from Microsoft NT
> servers to the iSeries. The FAA hopes the switch will reduce the number of
> servers it must support and increase reliability of Web applications.
> Running a Domino application on NT, "they are forced to reboot every night
> to keep the site up and running," says Tom Harrison, manager of Domino
> administration at Computer Applications Specialists, Inc., the company
that
> consulted with the FAA on the migration. "They purchased two [iSeries]
> servers because they heard it was a more stable platform [for Domino]."
>
> -- Jill R. Aitoro, Group Computing Industry Reporter
>
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