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I was gonna post this some time ago but I forgot so here it is:
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20010409S0012
http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20010409S0012
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Heh, nice 
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lol.. nice
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Very good!
I maintain small networks all over Europe, and most of my customers have, or are about to, move from Novell to NT. The excuses they trot out vary, but I personally think that their IT guys need to justify their existance somehow.
Every single one of the Novell servers have 100% uptime.
I maintain small networks all over Europe, and most of my customers have, or are about to, move from Novell to NT. The excuses they trot out vary, but I personally think that their IT guys need to justify their existance somehow.
Every single one of the Novell servers have 100% uptime.
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No such thing as 100% uptime
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Um, if you say so!
Most customers demand a minimum uptime, or maximum downtime for products supplied by us (or anyone else). I'm not talking about word processors or stuff like that, but custom software/hardware for vertical markets. Anyone who's ever worked in this market or is, perhaps, the administrator of a large LAN/WAN knows what I mean.
As a favour to customers who don't have the skills to implement a Novell network, we have installed these ourselves.
The Novell servers have never crashed, gone down, or had any problems whatsoever. They've been available for use 100% of the time since they were installed. That in my book, and any other supplier of custom widgets, is 100% uptime.
Most customers demand a minimum uptime, or maximum downtime for products supplied by us (or anyone else). I'm not talking about word processors or stuff like that, but custom software/hardware for vertical markets. Anyone who's ever worked in this market or is, perhaps, the administrator of a large LAN/WAN knows what I mean.
As a favour to customers who don't have the skills to implement a Novell network, we have installed these ourselves.
The Novell servers have never crashed, gone down, or had any problems whatsoever. They've been available for use 100% of the time since they were installed. That in my book, and any other supplier of custom widgets, is 100% uptime.
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Doesn't uptime also refer to anything that means a server is offline...updates etc etc.
I seriously doubt a server never has to be taken offline for one reason or another.
[Edited by Embattle on 12-05-01 at 13:30]
I seriously doubt a server never has to be taken offline for one reason or another.
[Edited by Embattle on 12-05-01 at 13:30]
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Not really.
Uptime is calculated by comparing the amount of time the customer requires a service to the time it's actually available. You don't say your car isn't 100% reliable just because you have to put it in for a service every 10,000 miles.
I bet it wouldn't have taken those guys 4 years to realise an NT server was missing!
Bugger, you edited after I replied
Having said that, there's no reason to update a server, or any other software, if it's working perfectly. Our oldest server has been 'up' for almost 5 years.
[Edited by SoWat on 12-05-01 at 13:44]
Uptime is calculated by comparing the amount of time the customer requires a service to the time it's actually available. You don't say your car isn't 100% reliable just because you have to put it in for a service every 10,000 miles.
I bet it wouldn't have taken those guys 4 years to realise an NT server was missing!
Bugger, you edited after I replied
Having said that, there's no reason to update a server, or any other software, if it's working perfectly. Our oldest server has been 'up' for almost 5 years.
[Edited by SoWat on 12-05-01 at 13:44]
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No but its off the road and thus a server is not up
Impressive.
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haha I know that story
I personally admin some 400 Novell servers and on occasion I too have 'found' servers sitting in some quiet corner with no network, but still up, that suposedly had been retired yonks ago. My personal record breaker had well over 800 days uptime on the clock wheee.
We average out at about 150 days continious uptime on the Novell side. The 'average' server has 5 minutes of downtime in a year, which produces an uptime percentage of 99.999048706. In fact, we regard failure as not producing an uptime in excess of 99.8%
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[edit] that's a yearly uptime for you nit-pickers[/edit]
I personally admin some 400 Novell servers and on occasion I too have 'found' servers sitting in some quiet corner with no network, but still up, that suposedly had been retired yonks ago
. My personal record breaker had well over 800 days uptime on the clock wheee.We average out at about 150 days continious uptime on the Novell side. The 'average' server has 5 minutes of downtime in a year, which produces an uptime percentage of 99.999048706
. In fact, we regard failure as not producing an uptime in excess of 99.8%m00
[edit] that's a yearly uptime for you nit-pickers
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Most of ours are NT4 where I work so not quite so good
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God u lot are boring
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and you're lame
so we're all fscked aren't we =P
so we're all fscked aren't we =P