Re: 90GB table on Windows 2000

With over 1500 NT/Win2000 Servers at FedEx, I can safely say, that NT/Win2000 is fine if you enjoy an average uptime of 97%, these machines do not support mission critical apps, but are remote data entry sites for upto 20 users. Micro$oft itself has told FedEx that best reliability they can commit to is 98%. Where our requirements are 5 9's, it is either Sun, HP or IBM mainframes...

Oh, and for the record, our Sun and HP average uptime is 3.4 years so far.... The worse box we have ever had from HP, was up 1.5 years, before we had to replace the system board... NT/Win2000 will never approach that level of uptime.

Jim
"Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr2000_at_yahoo.com.au> wrote in message news:bBvp9.50692$g9.147169_at_newsfeeds.bigpond.com...
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> "Niall Litchfield" <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk> wrote in message
> news:3da68457$0$1292$ed9e5944_at_reading.news.pipex.net...
> > "Jim Stern" <jdstern_at_k2services.com> wrote in message
> > news:ao52s5$fdl$1_at_news.utelfla.com...
> > > Damn right... NT is definitely a no no for real critical applications,
> too
> > > many variables for the O/S to be stable.
> >
> > Are you sure this isn't just a knee jerk response. We have 2000 servers
> > running line of business apps that have been up for (checks uptime) 118
> > days. The downtime was for power work. Setup correctly windows 2000 *is*
a
> > stable OS. Now I'm not suggesting that we move apps supporting 10,000
> users
> > across to win2k from Solaris or HPUX or whatever, but windows is now a
> > perfectly satisfactory server operating system. Moreover in this
> particular
> > case the application appears to be a single table app storing logs or
> stats
> > or some such.
> >
>
> Yup. Frankly, I'm getting bored with the "Micro$oft" and "Windoze" crap.
>
> My home server (2000) has been up for 221 days. It would have been more,
> but the previous 119 days were interrupted by a thunderstorm knocking out
> the power. One UPS later, and all is well. Even my XP desktop, which
gets
> punishment aplenty and all manner of freeware installs, deinstalls and
> anything in between, has been up for 54 days.
>
> This myth that Windows is unstable is just that: myth. These days. But
> even so, I remember my NT4 servers at a large Insurance company running
for
> three months at a time without interruption, except when I wanted to
bounce
> them for service pack or backup issues.
>
> I blame the installers. Not the software.
>
> Regards
> HJR
>
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Received on Sat Oct 12 2002 - 23:10:47 CDT