[rescue] Re: [geeks] THIS. MAKES. ME. SICK.

Wed Jun 13 19:08:15 CDT 2001

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You can quote me specifically, at my former employer, we had a Compaq 
Proliant server running NT4 that was up for two years.  Granted it was 
an Exchange server with rather few clients for it's size.  (This company 
had an email system the size of microsoft's and about half as many 
employees, actually came in handy when the melissa virus and it's 
compadres came around, but then again, if it wansn't all MS they 
wouldn't have had that problem in the first place.)  But nevertheless, 
it was a used server with over 2 years of uptime. 

(now i'll go hide in a corner for talking about nt on this list, i'll be 
waiting for my lashings)

   -Dan Sikorski

Dave McGuire wrote:

> On June 13, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> 
>> OK, I can't quote anyone specific for NT achieving that uptime.  I've
>> heard people claim it, but I'm not going to take the time to find a
>> reference.  I do know that for several years now (and this is easy to find
>> references to) there have been companies guaranteeing uptimes upwards of
>> 99.99% uptime.  Now, if they can guarantee that in a bad case, then
>> average or good cases for those companies should easily exceed 2 years.
> 
> 
>   Not meaning to gang up on you, Josh...but...
> 
>   These sorts of rumors are often started by Microsoft in one way or
> another.  For example...know how IE got where it is stats-wise?  IE
> prior to version 4 sent every HTTP request TWICE.  Microsoft called it
> a "bug"...a "simple oversight"...that JUST HAPPENED to DOUBLE the
> apparent number of people using IE.
> 
>        -Dave McGuire
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<html><head></head><body>You can quote me specifically, at my former employer,
we had a Compaq Proliant server running NT4 that was up for two years.  Granted
it was an Exchange server with rather few clients for it's size.  (This company
had an email system the size of microsoft's and about half as many employees,
actually came in handy when the melissa virus and it's compadres came around,
but then again, if it wansn't all MS they wouldn't have had that problem
in the first place.)  But nevertheless, it was a used server with over 2
years of uptime.  <br>
<br>
(now i'll go hide in a corner for talking about nt on this list, i'll be waiting for my lashings)<br>
<br>
    -Dan Sikorski<br>
<br>
Dave McGuire wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:15143.62493.55654.278413 at phaduka.neurotica.com"><pre wrap="">On June 13, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:<br></pre>
  <blockquote type="cite"><pre wrap="">OK, I can't quote anyone specific for NT achieving that uptime.  I've<br>heard people claim it, but I'm not going to take the time to find a<br>reference.  I do know that for several years now (and this is easy to find<br>references to) there have been companies guaranteeing uptimes upwards of<br>99.99% uptime.  Now, if they can guarantee that in a bad case, then<br>average or good cases for those companies should easily exceed 2 years.<br></pre></blockquote>
    <pre wrap=""><!----><br>  Not meaning to gang up on you, Josh...but...<br><br>  These sorts of rumors are often started by Microsoft in one way or<br>another.  For example...know how IE got where it is stats-wise?  IE<br>prior to version 4 sent every HTTP request TWICE.  Microsoft called it<br>a "bug"...a "simple oversight"...that JUST HAPPENED to DOUBLE the<br>apparent number of people using IE.<br><br>       -Dave McGuire<br>_______________________________________________<br>rescue maillist  -  <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rescue at sunhelp.org">rescue at sunhelp.org</a><br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue">http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue</a><br></pre>
    </blockquote>
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