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[Bernard Peek]

Christopher Hunter wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 18:27 +0000, Bernard Peek wrote:
>
>   
>> I've heard lots of people tell me that it's impossible to build a stable 
>> Windows system when I know that it passed the five-nines (given 
>> competent administrators) availability point nearly ten years ago.
>>     
>
> I have NEVER seen anything even remotely approaching TWO nines
> availability with Windows.  The NT Series is so fundamentally flawed
> that it can never achieve any real stability or security - I know, I had
> to work on it!
>
> C.
>
>   
I worked on a site that did statistical analysis of their large server 
estate. They were getting a predicted five-nines availability from the 
beta release of Windows 2000, they delayed installing the RTM release 
because of that.

I managed a much smaller server estate and in the five years I ran it, 
total unscheduled downtime was one server for twenty minutes. That was a 
result of a UPS battery failure.

Here at home I've got a W2K server that has had no unscheduled downtime 
since W2K was released.

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