OT: Unix can't win

[Bill Vermillion]

When asked his whereabouts on Wed, Jan 05 15:22 , tom heine took the 
fifth, drank it, and then slurred: 

> similar but different problem with air traffic control
> 
> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20040917/1220226_F.shtml
> 

Gawd.  That would make me want to avoid all commercial aircraft.

Why in God's name would anyone put in a machine where human lives
can be lost in severe events that has to be rebooted every
30 days.   Cost cutting at the expense of life and property 
is very foolish.


> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bill Vermillion" <fp at wjv.com>
> To: <filepro-list at seaslug.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 2:37 PM
> Subject: Re: OT: Unix can't win
> 
> 
> >As Bill Campbell was scratching "For a good prime call 
> >391581 * 2^216193 -1" on the wall, he suddenly said:
> >
> >>On Tue, Jan 04, 2005, Ted B Dodd wrote:
> >>>http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1746236,00.asp
> >
> >>That's news? Why do you think all the proprietary Unix vendors
> >>other than SCO have been moving into the Linux space (or at
> >>least trying to :-)?
> >
> >And of course that information came from a Microsoft spokesman too.
> >
> >>I did find the comment about the company switching from AS400s
> >>to Windows 2003 server interesting, particularly since I've
> >>been told by local people who Should Know(tm) that Microsoft's
> >>main accounting applications still run on AS400s, and that
> >>their attempts to run them under Windows have failed miserably.
> >
> >>...
> >
> >The article also mentioned that Enterprise systems were moving from
> >proprietary Unix to MS and/or Linux.   But what you would call
> >an enteprise system 10 years ago is not the same as you see to day
> >- when more companies are computerized.
> >
> >The proprietary systems are getting larger and more powerful - but
> >the commodity/pc/Intel architecture systems are far more powerful
> >today so some of the old systems may not be needed.
> >
> >
> >Now - here is a question.  On the meltdown of the airline computer
> >system during the Christmas holiday does anyone know the operating
> >system and/or hardware environment.
> >
> >The old systems such as Sabre just never failed.   My hunch [not
> >proven] is that someone was trying to do something cheaper, and
> >those AS-400s as you mention were awfully rugged, and the Z-series
> >from IBM running the IBM OS or mutliple instance of Linux just
> >don't fall over.
> >
> >Bill
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