RE: Microsoft thwarted again

["Walden H. Leverich" <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At the risk of again "avoid[ing] the meat of a statement":

>Does that mean they compare?  Of course not, and you know it.  

Never said it did. You said that there are AS/400's that haven't been
rebooted, I said that there are other machines too. Neither means a hill
of beans.

>There might be one doing some sort of file serving or maybe 
>acting as a DNS server or mail router, but not running
>a real application. 

You don't consider DNS a "real application?" Hard for Amazon to make all
that money if no one can find their site. I'd also bet that most of our
users would be upset if they didn't have e-mail. 

>...but the truth is THERE IS NO COMPARISON

Ah, but there is a comparison, and that's the problem. A majority of the
iSeries community loves to simply bash MS and say there's no comparison,
but in the mean time, how many enterprises have abandoned the iSeries
and gone to windows. How many have abandoned windows and gone to an
iSeries? Windows is real, viable, and stable. Continuing to ignore it
won't make it go away. The same, BTW, can be said for Linux.

>...if you find me a machine that hasn't been rebooted since 2001...

Looking for a single machine (and I'm sure there is one) is silly.
Again, you miss the idea behind clustering. I'm sure I can find many
clusters that haven't stopped serving their customers since 2001. The
single machine argument is like spending all your time increasing the
MTBF of a disk drive to make it more reliable. In the mean time, just
install a RAID array and move onto another problem.

Reliability should be measured in terms of the availability of my
application to my users. They don't care if a given piece of hardware is
down, as long as their application is available. Likewise, they don't
care if a piece of hardware up if they can't get to their application,
so those DNS servers better be considered "real."

-Walden

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Walden H Leverich III
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