| ??? 05/09/07 22:04 Read: times |
#138951 - The world moved on... Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Richard Erlacher said:
Frankly, back in the days of those workstations you mention, my business was dependent on them. Thanks to the fact that *NIX versions (a nice development environment, but a crap production environment) were used because software was released with bugs and the promise that they'd be "fixed in the next release," so they could patch them "in situ." We seldom had a week go by when we didn't have at least 10 hours' downtime on one system or another.
As soon as there was some reasonable software for the PC, I sold or discraded all the Sun, HP, and Apollo hardware (HP had already bought Apollo by then) and switched to PC's. The downtime problem was immediately gone. People who program computers LOVE *NIX. People who rely on them for useful work ... well ... that's another story. RE Richard, I'm not sure what this has to do with Craig's choice of laptop, but... I still run and deploy a lot of Unix system. Most of them meet telco "five nines" requirements. Services up and available 99.999% of the year. That's a little over 5 minutes of downtime per year. So I'm going to guess that whomever you had running these systems was not "earning their pay" as you like to phrase it. BTW - I'm starting to think you've taken a liking to following me around this site a trying to refute or disparage anything I post. While you're doing this, who's keeping an eye on that other guy you like to do this to? |
