On 25 Oct 2000, at 16:50, Bill Anderson wrote:
OK, tim e fo rme to weigh in on this. Reboot frequency is a matter of experience and perspective.
I don't believe that broadening the discussion along these lines will serve this mailing list in any way, so I refrain from commenting on most of these statements. Just let me remark that I dislike marketing gibberish independed of the origin it comes from. I made my point, i.e. as long as Zope isn't up to serving as a single-instance long time server anyway, who cares about the underlying OS. It might be hard to comprehend for some, but this statement doesn't say anything about how I value uptime rates. [...]
If, on the other hand, you don't come from that background or need, and are not used to that type of environment, a few months to six months to nearly a year can mean something to you.
Well, I still remember the times when my companies large IBM mainframe had to be IPLed for hardware maintenance, after running literally for years, while our Unix based workstations and servers celebrated their crashes almost daily. In these times, I had to relink the kernel and to reinstall the OS, in order to add a lousy floppy drive or some memory to my Unix workstation. Eeek. The statelessness of NFS, for example, came for a reason, you know. -- Wolfgang Strobl