Re: The future of computing

["Steve Richter" <srichter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I dont know.  Domino, running on a 170 in the shop that I work at, sure is
down a lot.

Does this list run on domino?
Could it?
Would up time increase or decrease if it did?

Steve Richter

-----Original Message-----
From: Randy Mangham <randy.mangham@home.com>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Monday, July 09, 2001 10:53 PM
Subject: 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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