RE: iSeries more stable than NT? Who says? -- MIDRANGE-L


Walden,

I would tend to agree with you...however, there was nothing in the logs
that would give any hint of a restore problems...they were done under
admin authority.

Don



On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Walden H. Leverich wrote:

> Don,
>
> Umm, sorry but a backup that won't restore isn't a "good full system state
> backup." What backup software were you using? Do you attempt restores in the
> lab?
>
> -Walden
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don [mailto:dr2@cssas400.com]
> Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2001 12:35 PM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: iSeries more stable than NT? Who says?
>
>
>
>
> Dave,
>
> I just had a major multi user win-2k pro desktop nuke it's registry... we
> had several GOOD FULL SYSTEM STATE backups.  NONE, and I mean NONE would
> restore...we could not get the registry or the user profile info to
> restore correctly...we were in RELOAD...and I hear this is NOT an
> anomoly.....
>
> I was really pissed!
>
> Yeah, it's alot more stable than 95 and 98...but...it still locks up.
>
> Don in DC
>
> ------
>
> On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, David Bulog wrote:
>
> > 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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