RE: someone is not being straight. Guess who...

     Gee Bill, how many gloating emails per second does it take to prove 
     that M$ created this problem for themselves.<g> Nobody forced M$ to 
     design a network like that. They did it. They make these outrageous 
     claims about "enterprise computing" and "uptime" and "scalability" 
     then promptly fall flat on their face (again and again) when their 
     stuff won't work. If M$ wants to convince the world that their 
     software is reliable and scalable and ......, then they need to 
     truly prove it. Real results, not just hype and advertising.
     
     Eric DeLong


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Subject: Re: someone is not being straight. Guess who...
Author:  "Bill Albert" <SMTP:balbert@bayinfosys.com> at EXCHANGE
Date:    1/26/01 7:30 PM


Does anyone think this is only a diversion for the AS/400 staffs of the 
world to see if M$ can cause an AS/400 to fail due to the absurd number of 
gloating e-mails?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Chabot" <echabot@marlinfirearms.com> 
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 2:36 PM
Subject: RE: someone is not being straight. Guess who...
     
     
> Doug,
> It would only drop the availability % by .25%, if MY math is correct. 
>
> Ed Chabot
> The Marlin Firearms Company
> 100 Kenna Drive
> North Haven, CT 06473
> (203)985-3254
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Douglas Handy 
> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 2:38 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: someone is not being straight. Guess who... 
>
>
> Joe,
>
> >Well, that employee must be at it again, because MSN.com is down. 
>
> >From where I am, so is www.microsoft.com and www.hotmail.com too.  All of

> them
> have DNS errors -- just like yesterday. 
>
> So what counts toward "availibility" percentages?  If the HTTP servers etc

> were
> technically "up" but unreachable due to DNS errors or a DoS attack, can M$

> still
> claim the time in their "up" computation? 
>
> And if not, has anyone done the math on how far this outage goes towards 
> dropping the percentage?  Calling it a 22 hour outage (is it really over 
> yet?)
> would drop an entire year by 2.5% even if the rest of the year never had a

> glitch.  Or put another way, to get back to 99.999% it would have to stay 
up
> non-stop for the next 251 years... 
>
> If this is an employee mistake, I'll bet he'll be flipping burgers (or 
> coding
> RPG <g>) soon.  But it sure smacks of someone trying to embarass MS after 
> they
> launched their big advertising campaign. 
>
> Doug
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