Rick Clark wrote:

> Here's something I wonder the 9000 will be able to handle. We just
> experienced a brown out at about 2:30. Our UPS kept the HP3000 up and
> running through it all. Then at about 3:00, the power went completly
> out. Our HP3000 was still running, and we were able to bring it down
> with no problems. We were up and running in less than 10 minutes after
> the power came back on. Take that 9000. At least I hope you can...

Having had a 9000 in-house close to a year, but being the big 3000
advocate
that I am, I shouldn't say this, but will anyway :-)

With the PowerTrust UPS of the proper size, yes, the 9000 can take it,
and even further it can perform an orderly shutdown automatically as the
UPS starts to drain it's batteries.  A 3000 will detect the UPS running
out, but performs a rather ineligant System Abort.

There are plenty of things to be "trembling with fear of the 9000"
about, but that isn't one of them.  I would however advise that you get
Mirror/UX,
Online JFS, and mirror everything (including your root volume, take that
3000 one day, I hope :-) )

HPUX will drive you nuts, and if you need a database, that can drive you
insane.  But the hardware is the same, and some of the peripherals are
better (dual fiber channel Nike 30 is awesome, dual-port 100TX HSC
Ethernet
adapter smokes, HSC FWD SCSI ain't shabby either).

Now excuse me while I go beg my 969 to forgive me :-)

Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>