Re[2]: OT RE: 24 x 7 on NT?

HUMM, Our last unscheduled Unix down was due to the local power utility whereas the last unscheduled down on NT was due to the "Blue screen of death" (Ok, so the screen is Black on 2000).

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Author: "Thater; William" <ThaterW_at_telergy.net>
Date:       6/26/2001 5:25 AM

On Mon, 25 Jun 2001,Mohan, Ross scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon:

->I agree with His Chrisness on this one.
->
->If the avg(NT Admin) > avg(Unix Admin), we'd
->all be reading this mail on Window's boxes.
->Er.....what I mean to say is......
->
-><sly grin>
->
->but, in all seriousness....when there is a way
->to find a *very good* NT admin out of all the
->Wendy's employees, then NT boxes will be up
->4 or 5 nines, easy.
->
->Besides guys, "five nines" means you're down
->about FIVE MINUTES a year.
->
->Now, how many of the Unix boxes on this list
->have done that this year? I bet less than
->one percent.

well, then there must be a whole lot of unix boxes out there because we've got 40 of them right here. i'd say all of my 32 databases have been up that much too, but i've only had 25 of them up a whole year.;-) yup, i know i've been lucky.

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