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  3. October 2001

RE: NICs - bottleneck (was Re: Dropping the AS/400 as a Web serving platform)

> However, if I
> have a farm of
> W2K servers and I assume 99% uptime per server (VERY fair
> assumption) then I
> only have to have 3 machines in my farm to have a 99.9999% uptime (in
> theory). Hey, but these machines are cheap, let's have 6. In theory that's
> 99.9999999999% uptime.

<COMMON SENSE>
This argument implies totally redundant systems.  That means each of your
servers has to have the capability to run your entire application.  A W2K
machine with that sort of capability is not cheap.  In fact, it's comparable
to a low-end iSeries.

Whereas you can easily keep two AS/400's up and running with 0% aggregate
downtime.
</COMMON SENSE>

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