Re: Message from Prague

"Paul Brewer" <paul_at_paul.brewers.org.uk> wrote in message news:<3d5b4de5_1_at_mk-nntp-1.news.uk.worldonline.com>...

> Nothing but admiration for you. You had the foresight to put one node
> upstairs?

No, both are situated in basement. In fact is very difficult (from building construction point of view) to have big computer server site elsewhere than in basement.
We have two sites with about 15km distance between them. One is situated in centre of Prague and another one in surrounding area of Prague. The one outside of centre is really high above the river (water stopped about three km from us). Even that one in centre was not damaged by river (which is very fortunate, because there is computer equipment worth hundreds of millions USD), but elektricity supply was switch off and it will be very difficult to keep gasoline generators in work for several days. Not mentioning that would not be a good idea to keep support people near flooded area where all traffic infrastructure was flooded or even destroyed. So we were doing our business using just one site, IT was not fully functional, but crucial services were kept running. So everything is OK.
Maybe, OK is not a good phrase to describe situation here. Our company (and also me as personal) suffered only minor losses, but overall damage in Prague and in whole country is extreme.

--
_________________________________________

Dusan Bolek, Ing.
Oracle team leader

Note: pagesflames_at_usa.net has been cancelled due to changes (maybe we
can call it an overture to bankruptcy) on that server. I'm still using
this email to prevent SPAM. Maybe one day I will change it and have a
proper mail even for news, but right now I can be reached by this
email.