Just thought you all would like to know that HP is moving into the
uptime guarantee business with respect to NT.

As reported (in part) from Information Week:

_______HP To Guarantee NT Performance_________
Hewlett-Packard this week will become the first server
vendor to promise 99.9% availability on Windows NT systems.
HP says it will offer service contracts for its NT platform
that guarantee unplanned downtime will not exceed 8.76 hours
per year--a level of uptime that's similar to guarantees
from some Unix suppliers. If HP fails to meet that goal,
customers will get one month of free system support.

HP will begin shipping the guaranteed NT system in October,
but the guarantee won't apply until February. The reason the
company can't immediately offer the 99.9% guarantee is that
it will take a few months to certify the system to run
Microsoft's Cluster Server, software that supports failover
between two NT servers. The four-processor unit, the LXr
8000, will be HP's most powerful NT server to date. Based on
400-MHz Intel Xeon chips, the LXr 8000 is upgradable to
eight processors and is intended for data center-level
applications.

It would be good to pay attention to this information. Especially when
framing arguments about availability/performance/etc when comparing
3k to nt systems.

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