zatatime wrote:

Funnily enough, I've also worked on telecom infrastructure, mostly for
keeping international traffic flowing around the world. UNIX is what
is used for those machines. We also strive for 99.99% up time and
know Microsoft can't give it to us through stress testing.

And I wrote system requirements for telecom software that had the same (or worse)
uptime requirements. We found the MS servers to be quite capable of delivering what
we needed.

George Patterson
If a man gets into a fight 3,000 miles away from home, he *had* to have
been looking for it.