Re: iSeries more stable than NT? Who says?

> Windows 2000 AS is great,scales at a fraction of the costs to unix,
iseries...
Until a full set of specs is given, no real evaluation is possible, and any
arguement
on either side is propaganda. We could even argue of what those specs should
be.
What is obvious here in the previous post, is that a professional staff,
after
obviously studying their requirements, chose to leave NT, not go to 2000 or
XP,
and chose the iSeries to host a robust email & application system.
It is NOT always the other direction (towards MS) as many pundits &
trade-rags
(full of MS advertising) are always espouting. Granted, many will choose
otherwise,
but I hope it is for sound technical reasons, not just joining the herd.

btw-I mailed this post to one shop, where 3 MCSE's maintain a network of w2k
servers using Exchange and other apps. They curse it daily, and it certainly
is not
meeting the original requirements for reliability. Yes, they do know what
they are
doing. They bought quality network hardware. Exchange just doesn't stay up.
My own ISP, Time Warner & the Road Runner network is running email on
Echange. This has been the worst e-mail service of any isp i have ever
subscribed
to. They regularly (several times a week) bounce back posts from this list.
Dave-the post was about stability.
Your answer is about cheap cost.
no thanks,
jim franz




----- Original Message -----
From: "David Bulog" <d2ba@xtra.co.nz>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 6:02 PM
Subject: Re: iSeries more stable than NT? Who says?


> Windows 2000 AS is great,scales at a fraction of the costs to unix,
iseries
>
> Dave
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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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