Re: Linux betas NT in TPC testing, running Oracle8
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 05:41:05 GMT
Message-ID: <7hb15a$1v9$1_at_wombat.cs.monash.edu.au>
r.e.ballard_at_usa.net writes:
> "nik" <ndsimpso_at_ingr.com> wrote:
>> r.e.ballard_at_usa.net wrote in message <7guvu2$bi9$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>...
>> > Availability - NT Availability has improved
>> > from 95% in 1996 to nearly 99.7% in 1999.
>> > Linux has gone from 99.98% to 99.998% this means
>> > Linux is down for about 5 minutes every 3 months.
>> > NT is down 5 minutes per week.
>> Show me a singgle company anywhere in the world
>> that will guarnatee 99.998%
>> uptime for a LINUX server. This is completely bogus claim.
>Neither is a guarantee. Both are simply the observations obtained
>from organizations with numerous servers.
It should be noted that 5 minutes per week is actually 99.95% uptime, and that 5 minutes per 3 months is 99.996% uptime.
Bernie
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Received on Wed May 12 1999 - 07:41:05 CEST