Critique?

[Ted Roche]

On 3/1/07, markw at mohawksoft.com <markw at mohawksoft.com> wrote:

> Seriously, without guessing, I'd love to see just one company with less
> than about 5 minutes of up time.

I am not arguing with your thesis, but decision makers are besieged
with claims like Rackspace:

"The Zero-Downtime Network™"
"Our network hasn't been down for a second since November 10, 2000,
and we guarantee it never will be. Go ahead and ask other providers
when and how often their networks go down."

Source: http://www.rackspace.com/promo/marchreducedprice.php

I am well aware that their zero-downtime is not the same as 100%
availability, but that's a subtlety lost on many clients.

-- 
Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com

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