And then there's backups. I understand that we are just now seeing ZDT
backups for NT; whereas I got the impression (not that I have enough
expertise to even have a valid opinion on this) that ZDT backups for the
3000 were, sadly, not a revolutionary idea.

Now, I respect NT. And I remember when NetWare made people fear for
their jobs, back when it was hard to admin, but the only other players
in that niche have long since disappeared. Servers were nothing more
than the best PCs available, starting with 286s. Now PC / LAN servers
are looking more and more like minicomputers. If companies are bragging
about how much their servers are like, well, the 3000, up and running,
maybe HP should brag about the 3000 in much the same way, and sell it as
such: we have some great NT servers, but if you need 24 * 365.25, you
should look at the 3000s.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dirickson Steve [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, September 14, 1998 2:11 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: [HP3000-L] And speaking of Benchmarks. . .
>
> 8 hours 46 minutes of unplanned downtime a year? Every year? I don't
> think
> we've ever had a 3000 be down that much, even going back to the 58 ten
> years
> ago; three-nines uptime would be a big step backward.
>
> Steve