OT Google buys AOL chunks

I haven't tried clustering in W2k or W2k3. We tried it in HP-UX a few years ago, and never got it to work right (even had HP in trying to set it up). I prefer HACMP on AIX, it works right first time every time and is almost foolproof to setup.

On 12/22/2005 2:42 PM Enoch Root mumbled something about the following:

And RedHat, or SuSE don't do the same? Hell, the cost of RH ES3 is as expensive as Win2k3, and they try to get you to upgrade from their previous version or they won't support you (we have about 20 $1200 a year support contracts with them on an earlier version and they are pushing us to upgrade).

We're really too small of a company to need to use Oracle HR/Financials, yet we have 3 Oracle DBA/Developers for a 1500 employee company to keep our HR/Financials running. We have 1 customer who uses our product with Oracle as the backend DB to our Personal Banking software. We've tried to get them to switch over to DB2 (our reference platform), but they want Oracle, so we charge them extra for it.

Happy Yule.

I don't know, I use Debian (a copy costs you (given a net install) exactly one writable CD). I'm almost certain* those other distributions aren't suffering the same design/marketing problems Windows is.

er

Try selling a platform to a bank without having support for every piece, hardware, OS, etc. It doesn't happen. They want assurance that if something fails, they have someone they can blame. Free OSes don't cut it if you don't have support.

Well the banks obviously should be buying a warm wool Red Hat.

er

Ah, I _didn't_ read book 2 and 3, because, well, I didn't see where he was going with book one. So it's a book to add to the pile, then?

Our experience differs. At least in the mortgage industry...

Of course you have support. And if you have a problem where your boss encourages blamestorming rather than solving problems with the appropriate solutions, you need to upgrade your boss.

It's in this very thread, in the part that you snipped out (oddly enough). Here's the google link:

Nor, apparently, this one.

Odinn, could you please trim that signature? As you can see from the above, it's often more lines than your post.

I believe tradition says one or two lines should be the limit, although

Technically, it's not even a .sig, because it doesn't start with

I think reading book 0 before book 1 will raise your curiosity enough while reading book 1 to continue on to 2 (& 3).

er

Um. Can I get a guide to the numbering as used in this context, please?

Not unless I'm betting the same way you are :-).

Book zero would be Cryptonomicon... mostly relatives of the characters in the trilogy.

er

Well, if nothing else, you'll get some closure. I think you'll find books 2 & 3 much more enjoyable reads, though. I found myself looking forward to reading them every day, as opposed to book 1, which I sort of slogged through.

R, Tom Q.

Yeah, me too. I finished it out of sheer obstinance (no, really. Imagine that, of me.) So, 2 & 3 are a bit less sloggy, then?

Dave "I may have just invented a word there..." Hinz

Online banking is a lot different than something used by the mortgage companies internally. Firewalls in front of the web server, firewalls between the app server and the database with commuications via IPSec. OSes hardened. I'm sure you don't want your account to be hacked by someone else.

On top of the banks themselves, we have about 5 or 6 different audits due to some govt regulation (SOX, SEC, Some California thing, etc). I probably spend a good 60% of my time handling auditors (running scripts, answering questions, explaining why we do something one way instead of another) between the months of Sep and Dec when all these audits go on.

It's not my boss who encourages blaming, it's the banks who want assurance. They won't allow us to use Linux unless we pay for support on it, and only a small portion of the banks we host will even allow Linux (we host over 2000 banks online presense).

I didn't reply to your post, I replied to Matt Stachoni.

This is what was in his message that was attributed to you.

Here's what he replied to

As opposed to the *nix* systems, which work out of the box without constant fiddling.

One of my busier servers hasn't been rebuilt, and hasn't been rebooted in (let's see...497+497+199= 1193 days). It was a sunday morning, and the reboot was due to a clumsy mistake, not a system problem.

Sure, but if you have to constantly tweak and adjust it, then that's a lot more screwing around than it should be.

Ah, so you're a fully-recovered sysadmin, then. A difficult state to get to.

Now, please try again. You didn't mention it in this thread prior to my post. You need a serious lesson in reading newsgroups.

I'll keep my signature as I see fit. Don't like it, don't read it