[32513] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Limits of reliability or is 99.999999999% realistic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Greenwell)
Sun Nov 26 03:13:24 2000
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2000 00:09:48 -0800 (PST)
From: Patrick Greenwell <patrick@cybernothing.org>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On 25 Nov 2000, Sean Donelan wrote:
> Is 99.999% just F.U.D. created by consultants?
>
> Instead of pretending we can build systems which will never fail, should
> we work on a realistic understanding of what can be delivered?
Marketing would never go for it. ;-)
