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  • Subject: RE: High availability questions
  • From: "Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 15:26:03 -0600

Ya ya.

You can throw all of these types of situations you want at me, but the fact
is computers will go down.  Just because you're a 911 dispatcher that
doesn't make your Wintel box any more reliable that the wintel box used only
to run Quicken by Mom and Pop down the street.

Brad

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeffrey Silberberg [mailto:jsilberberg@mindspring.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 3:11 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: High availability questions
> 
> 
> Brad,
> 
>         I hope that the people managing your E-911 dispatch 
> center running
> on
> iSeries/400 feel different about this than you.  Otherwise,  
> when the system
> is back up
> after 2 hours down time they may not save much of your home 
> but the basement
> foundation  :-)
> 
>         24 / 7 / 365 is a VERY real need for many operations where the
> iSeries excels !!
> 
> Used MIMIX since the early days of the System/38 !!!!
> 
> Jeffrey M. Silberberg
> CompuDesigns, Inc.
> (770) 399-9464
> 
> AS SOON AS I KNOW THE ANSWERS
> THEY CHANGE THE QUESTIONS
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Stone, Brad V (TC) <bvstone@taylorcorp.com>
> To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 1:50 PM
> Subject: RE: High availability questions
> 
> 
> < S N I P >
> 
> >  That's not too much to ask.  24/7 is a
> > want, not a need.  Otherwise everyone would be out of 
> business.  (ie they
> > were never 24/7 before it became a buzzword).  Not to 
> mention, if your
> > business can't survive with a couple of hours of downtime, 
> maybe it should
> > be re-evaluated if it's viable.  They say you should be 
> able to run your
> > shop for 6 months on no income.  :)
> >
> < S N I P >
> 
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